Freedom of Information

I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Nottinghamshire.

Please may you provide me with:

The diary, to include all work carried out in her role to include location of any meetings for the Police and Crime Commissioner for Nottinghamshire for the following dates:

Thursday, May 27
Friday, June 18

Please provide the information in the form of an email.

Details of all funding grants made by Nottinghamshire PCC to Black and Ethnic Minority Charities for the last three years in the following format.

(a)     Year
(b)     Charity Name
(c)     Locality
(d)     Amount
(e)     Description

1. How many police patrols are made in Blidworth per month?

2. Are there still PCSO’s assigned to the village of Blidworth?

3. How many of the emergency runs made by the police through the village are actual emergencies?

Since PCSOs have been present in Meden Vale (latter part of 2019), I would be grateful if you could advise:

1. Have the crime figures for our area significantly dropped or risen?

2. Which areas of crime, theft, drugs, abuse, etc., have reduced?

What is the annual cost to employ PCSOs?

1) a copy of the Constabulary's policy or procedure for the verification of the legitimate possession and use of prescribed medical cannabis/cannabis-based prescription medicine (CBPM);

2) if the Constabulary does not have a local policy regarding this, could you please confirm that the Home Office guidance is adhered to by the Constabulary - namely that someone claiming the legitimate possession and use of medical cannabis will be expected to produce: the original medication container complete with the pharmacy dispensing label bearing the name of the patient; with either a copy of their FP10 prescription or a letter from the prescribing clinician; and a form of recognised photo ID (such as a passport, driving licence, or a PASS accredited photocard) bearing the same name as displayed on the dispensing label and the copy of the FP10 or clinician's letter;

3) if your Constabulary does not have a policy relating to this, could you please provide the Constabulary's policy regarding compliance with the PSED (Public Sector Equality Duty), especially with regards to the avoidance of discrimination against disabled people for the legitimate possession and use of a prescribed medication;

4) a copy of any internal briefing documents provided to police officers regarding the existence of - and the process for the verification of - prescribed medical cannabis flower or other CBPM's following the Home Office Circular 2018: 'Rescheduling of cannabis-based products for medicinal use in humans' and The Misuse of Drugs (Amendments) (Cannabis and Licence Fees) (England, Wales and Scotland) Regulations 2018 which allowed the prescribing of medical cannabis (CBPM);

5) the named lead for the Constabulary for matters pertaining to the verification of medical cannabis (CBPM);

6) the Constabulary's policy or position relating to the recognition of unaccredited card schemes such as Cancard or MedCannID, if such a policy exists. 

1. How many British Muslim employees have you recruited? Please provide figures for every year since 2010.

2. What is the average length of service?

3. How many British Muslims have you employed in communications/media roles since 2010?

Under the Freedom of Information Act would you please tell me how many electric cars are in the Nottinghamshire Police fleet, the cost of purchasing the cars and for what use are these cars intended.

Please provide a copy of your Constabulary's asset register for all Constabulary owned land and buildings.

Please advise if you intend to provide an up to date asset register on your website and if so when.

1. How many people, including full-time, part-time and temporary employees, are currently recorded as being based at your main office, either by having a desk or a security pass or any other metric that you use?

2. Of these, how many were recorded as having entered the building on the following days:

a. Monday 6th September 2021

b. Monday 13th December 2021

c. Monday 24th January 2022

I am sure that these numbers will be available either by checking how many door security cards were activated on the days in question, however it is also likely that your HR department would, for health and safety reasons, be keeping a tally of how many staff were visiting the office.

Please provide the following information for 2018-19, 2019-20 and 2020-21:

•             The value of grants made to each of the organisations listed below. Please provide the information for each of the three financial years separately, and list all grants separately.

•             The value of loans made to each of the organisations listed below. Please provide the information for each of the three financial years separately, and list all loans separately.

The payments made to charities and third sector organisations relate to the following only:

•             Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH)

•             Independent Sage

•             NHS Confederation

•             Keep our NHS public

•             SOS NHS

•             Care and Support Workers Organise

•             UNITED VOICES OF THE WORLD

•             Health Campaigns Together

•             Doctors for the NHS

•             We Own It

•             The People's Assembly

•             Zero Covid Coalition

•             Health Campaign Together

•             Docs Not Cops

•             British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin

•             Association of Pakistani Physicians of Northern Europe

•             Royal College of General Practitioners

•             Royal College of Ophthalmology

•             Royal College of Psychiatrists

•             Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Without using your staff, could you yourself tell me how much money you have allocated at present to solving the Richard Poole murders?

When did you allocate this money?

What is the name of the officer in charge of the investigation?

What is the reference number?

1. Please confirm whether your police force has considered entering into a collaboration agreement pursuant to section 22A of the Police Act 1996 (as amended by the PRSRA) to establish a Forensic Capability Network (FCN).

2. Please confirm whether, as a result of such consideration, that such an agreement has been signed and if not please supply the reasons for not entering such an agreement.

3. If, such an agreement has been entered, please supply the date on which the agreement came into legal force.

4. Please confirm whether your police force has agreed that the Forensic Capability Network will prepare the next round of contracts for physical forensic services as part of their "next generation procurement" as detailed here on the FCN website https://www.fcn.police.uk/news/2021-11/seven-year-plan-next-generation-procurement-physical-forensics-goes-market , in other words, is your police force using this process or something else to procure such services?

5. If your police force is using something other than the Forensic Capabilty Network's process described in (4), please provide information as to what that process is.

-Total amount of funds used by the Police and Crime Commissioner for tackling the issue of stalking and harassment in Nottingham between March 2020 and December 2021

-  A breakdown of the funds allocated to each organisation by the Police and Crime Commissioner for tackling the issue of stalking and harassment in Nottingham between March 2020 and December 2021

Our Client/Claimant: Elaine Nadin Defendant: Penny Dawson Dog Bite Incident on 04.03.2020 We have been instructed by Ms Nadin regarding a claim for personal injury arising out of an incident on 4th March 2020 when she was bitten by a dog. The incident occurred on the public footpath outside the front of 67 Swinderby Road, Collingham, Newark, NG23 7PB.

I’m writing to you to make a request under the freedom of information act relating to incidents reported in your region where cyclists have been close passed by a motor vehicle such as those made as part of Operation Snap or similar.

Please could I receive the information broken down by calendar year from 2016 onwards in order to establish trends?

I’d like to know how many close passes involving cyclists have been reported and how many of them were accompanied by supporting video evidence.

I’m also interested in the outcomes of the reports.  What are the outcomes and what is their split amongst the reports?  E.g., how many reports result in no further action being taken, how many resulted in the driver being written to, how many resulted in the drivers being asked to attend an awareness course, and in how many instances were drivers prosecuted etc.?

Also, in how many of the reports did the cyclist receive a warning or prosecution relating to their part in the incident?

Having submitted many videos to different regions, highlighting what I believed to be obviously dangerous close passes that have resulted in different outcomes, I’d also like to understand how the level of outcome is arrived at and how the consistency of the evidence review is ensured?  For example:

• Is there a minimum level of training required for each person reviewing evidence?

• Is it ever acceptable for a vehicle to pass close within 1.5m of a cyclist?  If not, how is the proximity assessed from video evidence?  If so, how is the speed of pass or risk presented assessed from video evidence?  

• What are the documented guidelines/standards that those reviewing the video evidence follow?

Finally, with respect to the changes in the Highway Code concerning a hierarchy of vulnerable road users, will this be acknowledged in your regions budget spend and what will I notice as a cyclist?