FOI requests responded to between June 2022 and May 2023

Below are a selection of responses to requests made under the Freedom of Information Act between 1st June 2022 and 31st May 2023.

Staffing

The number of staff which report directly into the Police and Crime Commissioner for Devon and Cornwall. Of those staff numbers who work in the PCC's office, how many are responsible for either media, communications or social media? Please could you also confirm whether the Commissioner does her own social media, or whether a staff member assists?

Response:-   Information can be located here:- Our organisation · Devon & Cornwall Police & Crime Commissioner (devonandcornwall-pcc.gov.uk)

Police Officer pension forfeiture

How many applications to the Home Office have been made each year for the past decade to reduce or take away the pension of a convicted police officer under the Police Pensions regulations and what was the outcome?

Response:-   Searches were conducted to locate information relevant to your request.  This is to inform you that I cannot identify any recorded information held by the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner that will satisfy your request.

Expenditure on Pride month

• Whether any events have been organised for Pride month. If so please provide the date, start and end time, and title/topic of the event
• Whether any LGBT themed merchandise has been purchased for Pride month. i.e. since the beginning of the 2023/24 financial year. If so please provide me with information on what has been purchased and the cost
• Whether the organisation has sponsored any Pride events. If so which events and please provide details of the nature of the sponsorship (particularly the financial value)

Response:- The Communications and Engagement team have advised that they have not funded any Pride events or material this financial year.

Commissioned services performance

• Average waiting time for victims of sexual abuse or violence who have requested support services commissioned by your PCC between the years below. Please categorise the data by the types of sexual violence and abuse support services your PCC commissions (e.g. counselling).
  • Feb 14 2020-Feb 14 2021
  • Feb 14 2021-Feb 14 2022
  • Feb 14 2022-Feb 14 2023
• Average waiting time for victims of domestic abuse and violence who have requested support services commissioned by your PCC between the years below (where they are commissioned by your PCC). Please categorise the data by the types of domestic abuse and violence support services your PCC commissions (e.g. counselling).
  • Feb 14 2020-Feb 14 2021
  • Feb 14 2021-Feb 14 2022
  • Feb 14 2022-Feb 14 2023

If this support is commissioned by your local authority, please provide a list of relevant local authorities who would have this information.

Please could you also provide a list of charities or organisations that you commission to carry out these services, or direct me as to where I could find one.

Response:-  The information held by the OPCC is the information requested from the end of year MoJ Return which requests this information from providers for 1^st April to 31^st March each year. This is the OPCCs only record of the information requested.  This information should be treated with some caution as the MoJ changed their reporting template in 2022/23 and providers were given one line and asked to provide primary and secondary crime types and 2 columns for type of service and therefore the OPCC was only provided with one value for waiting time rather than being broken down in DA, SV, counselling etc. Any additional information relating to this will need to be requested direct from the providers.

The IDVA services are commissioned by:

• Cornwall County Council
• Devon County Council
• Torbay District Council
• Plymouth City Council

The OPCC commission Victim Support as the Strategic Delivery Partner for Victim Services and Victim Support commission domestic abuse and sexual violence services on our behalf and this is reflected in our Commissioning Intentions Plan on our website here: https://www.devonandcornwall-pcc.gov.uk/about-us/commissioning/#:~:text=What%20is%20a%20commissioning%20intentions,new%20services%20will%20be%20created.

The OPCC currently commissions:

• First Light  – ISVA service
• Barnardos – CSE service
• Childrens Society – CSA service
• Clear – Adult Therapeutic Service
• First Light  – Male Peer Support Service
• Womens Centre Cornwall – Womens Peer Support Service

Commissioned services

We would like information regarding the number of services commissioned in the past 12 months. We are looking to find: 1. The number of services commissioned by the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner in the past 12 months for: a. Child Victims of Child Criminal Exploitation b. Child Victims of Child Sexual Exploitation.

Response:- In the last twelve months we have continued to commission one child sexual exploitation service which is £200k a year and Barnardos are the supplier. Whilst we do not have a bespoke child criminal exploitation service, we do commission a children’s victim of crime service commissioned through Victim Support with a number of local suppliers which is valued at £330k a year and is delivered by a consortium (Young Devon, Young Cornwall, Kooth, The Zone, Devon Family Resource).

Police officer numbers

• On 31 March each year the number of FTE qualified police officers in post in 2010, 2016 and 2022.

This information is available online at :- https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales - select the relevant year and open the relevant data table.

• The number of desk jobs filled by qualified police officers at each of the above dates.

Information not held. You may wish to redirect your request to Devon and Cornwall Police FOI team, however please note that Police officers can spend their time both undertaking operational duties and working at a desk during a shift.  

• The number of FTO neighbourhood police officers in post at each of the above dates.

This information is available online at :- https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales - select the relevant year and open the relevant data table.

• The number of PCSO FTE in post at each of the above dates.

This information is available online at :- https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales - select the relevant year and open the relevant data table.

• The budgeted cost and actual costs for the re-opening of front desks at Newton Abbot, Tiverton, Falmouth, Penzance and Newquay in the current financial year.

	22/23	22/23
	£	£
6 Offices opening 2022/23	Budget	Actual Expected
Staff Costs	250,000	277,370
Buildings Costs	399,000	328,000
	649,000	605,370

The staffing costs were dealt with by way of an in-year budget reallocation.

• The number of visits on a weekly basis by members of the public to each of the above police stations since re-opening of new front desks.

Information not held. You may wish to redirect this request to Devon and Cornwall Police FOI team.

• The additional budget for potential opening of new front desks in 2023/24

£600,000

• The number of recorded crimes in the force area for 2010, 2016 and 2022

Information not held. You may wish to redirect this request to Devon and Cornwall Police FOI team.

• The number as a percentage of crimes solved (clear up rate) in each of the above years.

Information not held.  You may wish to redirect this request to Devon and Cornwall Police FOI team, however please note that information relevant to this question is recorded as crime outcomes, which may or may not meet your definition of ‘solved’.  The Home Office statistics on crime outcomes which can be located here, may assist in clarifying the information that you require.  https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/crime-outcomes-in-england-and-wales-2021-to-2022/crime-outcomes-in-england-and-wales-2021-to-2022

• The total budget for the Authority in each of the above years

For 2016 and 2022 information can be located online here: https://www.devonandcornwall-pcc.gov.uk/information-hub/key-documents/ - Medium Term Financial Plan.

The total budget for 2010/11 was  £286,459,230

• The Police Authority total cost precept for a typical band D property in each of the above years.

For 2016 and 2022 information can be located online here: https://www.devonandcornwall-pcc.gov.uk/information-hub/key-documents/ - Medium Term Financial Plan.

The 2010/11 precept for a typical band D property was £156.60.

First All Terrain Policing Vehice in Bodmin - response

Under FOI, could I please request all documents involved in the justification and authorisation of spend of funds made by your organisation against the vehicle identified in this article?

I would like to have details of discussions with partners on funding provided from those accounts. I would like to see documents on how much money is being provided by each organisation and the documents by the authorising officer responsible for making the decision.

Please include emails, minutes of meetings and other documents between your organisation and partners which cover the business case and operating costs.

https://www.devon-cornwall.police.uk/news/newsarticle/4478972b-8cab-ed11-9d52-6045bdd24049

 

7 November 2022 - Cost of Misconduct Hearings - response

Please disclose the total cost of running misconduct hearings from the earliest date in 2021, to the latest date available in 2022, depending on when your last report was run. Please include independent chair costs, any external legal costs and hearing venues if you used third party buildings rather than your own, or Police buildings.

 

4 November 2022 - Movement of persons to Ilfracombe - response

1. Were you consulted about the plan to bring 55 'holidaymakers' to Ilfracombe before they were sneaked in?
2. If so, what risk analysis did you undertake and what was your recommendation to the Home Office?
3. If you were not consulted, are you in the process of undertaking a thorough risk analysis for the protection of citizens and businesses in Ilfracombe and the surrounding area? I'm assuming this would include the protection of vulnerable people from coercion and women and children from harassment, and worse.
4. What increase in police presence are you going to make whilst you are undertaking this risk analysis, on the basis that some risks could be active 24 hours a day, 7 days a week? Could I respectfully suggest that the current resourcing levels for Ilfracombe do not inspire confidence as a result of the new profile of 'holidaymaker.'
5. What advice will you be giving citizens and small businesses, particularly those in the High Street, about improving their personal security and property security. Can you also advise how we can claim from the Home Office, the cost of us having to improve our security to provide us with piece of mind, due to a situation not of our making?

 

26 August 2022 – Vision Zero Information - response

From the attachments I have concluded that you have sent me responses against a), b) and part of d). Thank you.I did not see anything in the response that showed any analysis in terms of c) the effectiveness of VZSW interventions at reducing casualties.Are you able to clarify the situation in relation to whether any information is held by VZSW on these specific subject areas as they did not appear to be included, or if I have missed them would you be able to clarify where I might find them.It may be that there is work in progress to establish the effectiveness of these initiatives, or perhaps there was an evidence base against which these expenditures / proposal were based.There wasn’t as far as I could see anything detailing spend to date in the current financial year d). I assume VZSW management receive regular updates on in year spend to date, and therefore are there any updates on expenditure during the current financial year? Ordinarily I would have expected the first financial quarter returns for VZSW (April to June) should be available at this time.

2 August 2022  Vision Zero - response appendix 1, 2, 3

A copy of operational delivery plans by year (calendar or financial whichever is most convenient) for the first year of operation and the current year. b) A copy of the Agilysis area profile presented to VZSW members on 19th May 2022 c) Any analysis of the effectiveness of the different VZSW interventions in terms of their potential to reduce casualties. d) A copy of the 2021 - 2022, and current year financial accounts detailing revenues and expenditure by partner organisations against VZSW activity, including any consultancy, payments to charities or communications.

25 July 2022  Travel and Expenses - response

Please could you answer some questions about how you are currently handing your spending at the Authority:
Travel & Expenses

1.What finance system do you use?

2. What system do you use to manage and process your staff’s expenses?
3. What is the expense process?
4. What is the current period of reimbursement for staff expenses?
5. Are expenses required to be pre-approved?
6. How long does it take on average to process 1 expense claim?
7. How many expense claims were made in FY21/22? And what was total value of expense claimed in FY21/22?
8. Can your staff submit expenses remotely?
9. Are staff able to submit claims on their mobile device?
10. How are you claiming VAT on mileage? Do your staff have to deduct commute from mileage manually?
11. What percentage of expense claims are you auditing?
12. How many FTEs (full time employees) do you have processing expense claims?
13. What is the average time to reimburse your staff’s expenses?
14. Which department oversee' s/owns the expense processes/workflows?
15. Are there direct data integrations for expense spend directly into your main finance system? Alternatively, are they bulk uploaded via JPEG etc.? Invoices
16. What system do you use for managing/processing invoices?
17. What is your current invoice process for handling supplier invoices, from receipt to when it is posted in the ERP/finance system and ready for payment?
18. How many invoices were processed in FY21/22?
19. How many FTEs (full time employees) do you have in your accounts payable team who process invoices?
20. What percentage of invoices were paid late in FY21/22?
21. Are there cases where Invoices are duplicated and paid out more than once?
22. What is the approval workflow for Invoices?
23. Do you use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to scan invoices?
24. Do you have to manually validate the scanned invoices from the OCR capture?
25. Do you currently have a PO system or a non-PO system? If you use both types – what is the percentage of PO invoices vs. non-PO invoices?
26. Are you claiming VAT on invoices? If so, are you doing this in-house?
27. How are you currently reporting on invoice spend?

6 July 2022 Police Information - response

I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from British Constabulary. Please may you provide me with:

Police

• How many Paedophiles/Murderers/Rapists/Freemasons/Members of other secret societies/criminals do you currently employ?
• How many have you employed every year for the past 10 years?
  •       Secret Societies/Freemasons memberships and the like are BLATANTLY OBVIOUS conflicts of interest resulting in associated criminal activity (insider trading as it were) between members across Body's/Institutions/Companies for their own financial/or otherwise gain/protection, which compromise the safety of the We The People UK, please justify in Plain English why you allow it?
• How much LAW training do all your staff get, please specify?
  •       How much evidence based investigation training do all your staff get, please specify?
  •       How much psychological profiling training do your staff get, please specify?
  •       How much training on abuse/paedophiles/narcissists do your staff get, please specify?
  •       How much training on cults/mind control do you get, please specify?
  •       How much money do all your forces get for investigations into missing children?
  •       How much time do you spend every year investigating missing children?
  •       How many missing children are there, by force, nationwide, every year from 2012 - 2022?
  •       How many cases per year, over the last 10 years have involved any of the following Child Porn, Child Rape, Child Sexual Abuse (CSE/CSA), Grooming Gangs, Child Snuff Movies, Satanic/Ritual Abuse and Adrenochrome (blood drained, needle marks in the back of the neck, body parts dismembered/necrophilia?
• How much training do you get specifically around dealing with child psychology/trauma/PTSD/victims of abuse?
  •       How many Paedophiles or sex offenders are currently in prison and for what?
  •       How many Paedophiles or sex offenders are currently registered in the UK?
  •       How many Paedophiles or sex offenders are there that have committed crimes but are not registered?
  •       How many reported cases do you have, by force, every year for the last 10 years 2012 - 2022, for the following offences Domestic Abuse, Child Abuse, Rape, Sexual Violence, Sex Trafficking, Human Trafficking, Child Trafficking, Organ Trafficking, Drug Trafficking?
• How many of these cases have been solved? Reported v Solved numbers and rations every year, by force, 2012- 2022?
• How many of these resulted in convictions and prison sentences?
  •       What are your official policies and procedures for dealing with Victims of abuse?
  •       A policeman told me that if crime were to stop today it would take 8 years to clear the backlog of cases, WHY IS THAT?
• Why do all your forces use different computer systems/formats/processes/policies/contracts/suppliers?
  •       What are the KPI's for your staff?
  •       Why do police lie, destroy evidence, brutalise and arrest people without lawful warrants?
  •       Why do police not record or escalate crimes accurately, if at all?
  •       When a mass murder is reported please provide your official policy/process for dealing with that type of crime?
  •       Please provide how much investigation time, number of officers that has been dedicated to the following Crime Reference Numbers for Crimes Against Humanity/Genocide and the number of interviews conducted.
• Metropolitan Police 6029679/21
  •       West Yorkshire Police 13220052372
  •       How would you know if you were being mind controlled/manipulated/lied to?
  •       How many of your staff nationwide are on prescription medications?
  •       Please provide a full list of medications that your staff are on.
  •       Provide evidence that you know the individual and combined side effects of these medications and their combined impact on neurological health, critical/rational thinking, behaviour, emotions and hormones?
• How many of your staff are on recreational drugs?
  •       How regularly do you random drug test your staff?
  •       Please provide evidence that you fully understand the combined side effects of both pharmaceutical/recreational consistent drug use on neurological health, critical/rational thinking, behaviour, emotions and hormones?
• Explain in detail how its is safe for drug addicts to be working in public office making decisions that effect 67 million lives?
• How many criminal informants do you have?
  •       Informants continue to commit crime which is sanctioned and protected by you as long as they give you information, which means you are allowing them to commit crimes, allowing them to abuse people, allowing them to get away with it, just to make you look good on a certain number of other crimes making a total mockery of the entire Police/Court/CPS/Criminal Justice System. In and of itself, a crime.
• How much time/training is given to your staff on the importance of mental health, physical health both for themselves and the public?
• What is your process for staff who have catastrophically failed in their role causing the continued and sustained abuse of many victims, including murder, which is in and of itself a crime?
• Is you oath to Protect and Serve the 67 Million People of this country or to SOLELY Protect and Serve HER MAJESTY's interests?