Freedom of Information Disclosure Log

This is an information request relating to time and money spent campaigning against, and monitoring and responding to offensive social media content.

Please provide the following information for the financial years 2020 to 2021, and 2021 to the present date:

• The number of times individuals have been interviewed by your force regarding offensive social media posts, and the typical length of these meetings.
• Time and money spent on campaigns specifically targeted against hate crimes and offensive posts, an example would be the advertising van used by Merseyside police.
• Time and money spent collecting, removing, and investigating posters, leaflets or similar material with offensive content, as well as a brief summary of their content.

By 'offensive' social media posts, I refer to anything encompassed by the Communications Act (2003), which specifies "A person is guilty of an offence if he... send by means of a public electronic communications network a message or other matter that is grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character".

I wish to make the following request under the Freedom of Information Act.

Please could you provide a full list of property owned by the Police and Crime Commissioner with addresses, could you please include details where joint ownership or similar agreement exists between the PCC and other organisations such as a neighbouring police force.

Please could you provide a full list of property rented or leased by the Police and Crime Commissioner with addresses, used for a policing purpose or residential use by your police force.

In the past 12 months has your force rented any properties on a short term basis and if so could you please provide details including rent paid and any deposits or similar provided as part of the rental or lease of the property.

During the same period has the PCC disposed of any buildings previously used for policing or in support of policing, if so please provide details of the building(s) disposed of.

Can you provide details of how buildings and estate are managed by the PCC on behalf of Policing within your force area.

For clarity when I refer to property I mean buildings such as bases, offices, police stations, or other buildings used in support of a policing purpose.

I note you collect Equal Opportunities information in your job application process.  Under the FOI, please provide the total number of applicants for the past calendar year, financial year or the most recent 12 month period, whichever is most convenient to you, disaggregated by the sex of the applicant

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

I would like to request the following information:

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.

I would like to request how many unique complaints there have been in the last 12 months with regards to parking on residential pavements in Cwmcarn

Last week the crime figures for Abergavenny reported in the Abergavenny Chronicle .

However there was no mention of the detection rate.

Could you please advise of the same .

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?

I wish to make a FOI request for data on:

Total number of Police complaint reviews by Office of Gwent PCC from 1/2/2020 to 19/11/2021

Total number of police complaints upheld by Office of Gwent PCC from 1/2/2020 to 19/11/2021

1. Is heritage crime an issue in your county?
2. Is heritage crime an important issue for your county?
3. What are the levels of recorded heritage crime in your county over the last 5 years?
4. What categories of heritage crime have been recorded in your county over the last 5 years?
5. Is heritage crime considered as a priority for the Police & Crime Commissioner e.g. is it included in your Police and Crime Plan
6. Does your service partake in and/or encourage partnership working with outside bodies with regards to heritage crime working, for example, Historic England?
7. Are situational crime prevention techniques used by the service you are responsible for preventing heritage crimes?