FOI 714/24 CCTV Reviewed for Investigation
Dear Sir/Madam
Enquiry Reference: 714- 24
I write in connection with regards to your Freedom of Information request. Below is your request and our response.
REQUEST 1:
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Could you provide an estimate for the average number of hours spent reviewing CCTV footage in Violence Against the Person (inclusive of all sub-categories) criminal investigations, from January 2024 to June 2024?
This only applies to cases where CCTV footage is available. I understand that this may mean manually examining crime records to see if time spent reviewing CCTV was recorded. If this is the case, please review the maximum amount you can while still falling under the “Appropriate Limits and Fees” Regulation threshold, and use that amount as your sample size.
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REQUEST 2:
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In Violence Against the Person criminal investigations from the first half of 2024, could you provide the percentage of cases in which CCTV footage was reviewed? Again, if this requires manual examination of crime records, please only examine the maximum amount permitted under "Appropriate Limits and Fees", and use that amount as your sample size.
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REQUEST 3:
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Referring to crimes that took place in schools, nurseries/kindergartens, hospitals/hospices, and care homes - in the first half of 2024, in what proportion of cases did your teams find that the CCTV in question was not available or existent to corroborate the reported incident?
Again, if this requires manual examination of crime records, please only examine the maximum amount permitted under "Appropriate Limits and Fees", and use that amount as your sample size.
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REQUEST 4:
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Referring to crimes that took place in schools, nurseries/kindergartens, hospitals/hospices, and care homes - in the first half of 2024, how many police hours on average were spent reviewing available CCTV footage (Force, Local Authority, or Private) to aid the investigation?
Again, if this requires manual examination of crime records, please only examine the maximum amount permitted under "Appropriate Limits and Fees", and use that amount as your sample size.
- No information held
Enquiries have been made withing the force and we do not routinely log hours / time spent by Officers and Staff on reviewing footage and we do not have any records or statistics of this specific nature.
We are not obliged to generate new information in order to respond to a FOI request
The Cleveland Police response to your request is unique and it should be noted that Police Forces do not use generic systems or identical procedures to capture and record data therefore responses from Cleveland Police should not be used as a comparison with any other force response you receive.
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Yours sincerely
Information Rights Decision Maker