FOI 454-24 SCPO

Enquiry Reference:  454- 24                                                                                           

 

I write in connection with regards to your Freedom of Information request.  Below is your request and our response.

 

I would like to request the following information from your offender management unit dealing with SCPOs.  Please may you provide me with following details:

 

1. How many SCPO orders were applied for by your force since the legislation started and how many orders were granted.

• No information held

1. How many orders became live since, with Subject of the orders released to the community, with a year-by-year breakdown

• 2020- 3
  2021- 4
  2022- 1

2023- 2

2024- 3

1. How many Subjects of the orders reoffended during the terms of their SCPO:

- how many Subjects breached their licence conditions,

• 1

- how many Subjects breached the SCPO itself

• 1

1. How many Subjects have not breached the SCPO and had their SCPO discharged

• 12 Breached
• 8 Discharged

 

 

Having made enquiries within the Force please see above and for anything else we would rely on the following:

Section 1 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 places two duties on public authorities.  Unless exemptions apply, the first duty at Section 1(1) (a) is to confirm or deny whether the information specified in a request is held.  The second duty at Section 1(1) (b) is to disclose information that has been confirmed as being held.  Where exemptions are relied upon, Section 17 of the Freedom of Information Act requires that I provide the applicant with a notice which: a) states that fact b) specifies the exemption(s) in question and c) state (if that would not otherwise be apparent) why the exemption applies.

 

Cleveland Police can neither confirm nor deny that it holds the information relevant to your request as the duty in Section 1(1)(a) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 does not apply, by virtue of the following exemptions:

Section 23(5) Information Supplied by, or concerning, certain Security Bodies.

Section 23 is a class based absolute exemption and there is no requirement to consider the public interest in this case.

Confirming or denying the existence of whether any other information is held would contravene the constrictions laid out within Section 23 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in that this stipulates a generic bar on disclosure of any information applied by, or concerning, certain Security Bodies.  None of the above can be viewed as an inference that the information you seek does or does not exist.

Please note that all statistical data supplied in relation to Freedom of Information requests is a snapshot of data held at the time the request was received by the Freedom of Information office and is subject to constant change/updates.

 

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.

 

If you are not satisfied with this response or any actions taken in dealing with your request, you have the right to request an independent internal review of your case under our review procedure. The APP College of Policing guidance states that a request for internal review should be made within 20 working days of the date on this response or 40 working days if extenuating circumstances to account for the delay can be evidenced.

 

Yours sincerely

Information Rights Decision Maker