Freedom of Information Disclosure Log

I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOI)

The request covers the period from August 1st 2025 to April 14th 2026

1) The number of times Independent Custody Visitors (ICV) have requested to see a detainees custody record after being given permission from the detainee to see their custody record

2) The number of times ICVs were not given sight of the detainees custody record after being given the consent of the detainee.

3) The reason given by the Custody Sergeant for refusing to allow the ICV to see the detainees custody record

4) In each instance what legal reason was given to the ICV

5) The number of times Gwent ICVs have reported to their line manager that they have been refused sight of the detainees custody record.

Please provide the vehicle registration numbers of vehicles currently registered to the Police and Crime Commissioner.

If the information is available, I would also be grateful if the make and model of each vehicle could be included.

This request relates solely to administrative records of vehicle ownership or registration held by the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner and does not seek operational deployment information, tactical capability data, or information relating to the use of specific vehicles.

Under the FOI Act, as the Pension Supervising Authority for the local police force, please provide me with the following:

1. List the police officers dismissed or who have resigned from the local force since 2018 following conviction of a crime, the PCC is aware of?
2. For each officer listed in your answer to Q1, itemise them to show if they were dismissed or resigned, gender, offence(s), year of conviction, pension worth at time of leaving and if their pension has been forfeited (if so, include % forfeited).

Please can you tell me how many police officers' pensions have been forfeited in the past ten years in the police force you oversee. If this exceeds the FOI time limit, please give me the number for the past five years.

Please accept this email and find below a formal freedom of information (FOI) request. 

QUESTION ONE

On the 14^th October 2022, Gwent Police announced the introduction of four 'tuk-tuk' vehicles, to be rolled out in Newport and Abergavenny as 'safe spaces'. 

LINK: New Tuk-Tuks to provide additional support to Newport and Abergavenny residents.

https://www.gwent.police.uk/news/gwent/news/news/2022/october/new-tuk-tuks-provide-additional-support-to-newport-and-abergavenny-residents/

Who made the decision to purchase these vehicles?

QUESTION TWO 

On the 27^th October 2022, WalesOnline reported "A police force (Gwent Police) has spent just short of £40,000 on four tuk-tuks.

Is this amount correct? If not, what was the correct amount on money spent on the tuk-tuk vehicles?

QUESTION THREE

Were the Tuk-Tuk vehicles ever purchased? If so when? 

QUESTION FOUR 

Were the Tuk-Tuk vehicles ever rolled-out into use? If so, for how long? 

QUESTION FIVE

Are the Tuk-Tuk vehicles still in use today? If not, when were they taken out of service?

QUESTION SIX

If the Tuk-Tuks are not in use, have they been sold or scrapped? Are they in storage? If sold how much were they sold for?

I request the following information please:

1. How many General-Purpose police dogs are currently licenced
2. For the last five years how many GP dogs have finished, either retired, failed, PTs or other reason?
3. How many GP bites have been recorded for the last five years, breaking it down for month/year recorded?
4. Of these bites was it GP deployment, training, accidental, handler error or other 
5. Where was the person bitten? 
6. Injuries sustained for each bite?
7. How many of these bites were referred to IOPC?
8. How many of the IOPC referrals resulted in further action?
9. What Health and Safety protocols were changed because of these bites?
10. What policies were implemented or changed because of these bites?
11. How much money has been paid out by Gwent Police for police dog bites for the last five years?
12. A breakdown of the money paid out for the last five years by month/year for Q9?
13. How many GP deployments are recorded for each year for the last five years?

I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

For the most recent appointment process for your force’s Chief Constable (including any appointment of an Acting or Interim Chief Constable where a full recruitment process was undertaken), I would be grateful if you could provide:

1. The names and roles/organisations of all individuals who sat on the formal interview or selection panel(s) at each stage of the process (for example: longlisting, shortlisting, final interview).
2. The capacity in which each individual participated (e.g. Police and Crime Commissioner, independent panel member, HR adviser, external assessor, senior officer, etc.).
3. Any terms of reference, governance documents, or role descriptions setting out the remit of the panel(s).

The dates on which the relevant interview panel meetings or final interviews took place

Please provide the following information in relation to Gwent Police IT systems:

1. The recorded uptime statistics (including any percentage availability metrics held) for the period 1 December 2025 to 31 January 2026.
2. A detailed list of all IT system outages occurring within the same period where the duration of the outage exceeded one hour. For each outage, please include:
• Date of occurrence
• Start and end time (or total duration)
• A brief description of the nature of the outage, if recorded

Youth Crime ( age 0-17 years) statistics 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025

In accordance with the Freedom of Information Act ( FOI) I request disclosure of the following data:

1. Crime Reporting and Outcomes: For each calendar year commencing 2023, please provide an itemised breakdown in respect of children in Gwent (age 0-17 years) of the following data:

. The aggregate number of reported criminal offences 

. In respect of the reported offences, the number subject to formal investigation 

. Of the offences investigated, the number subsequently referred to the Crown Prosecution Service for consideration of charges

. Of the offences referred for prosecution, the number that culminated in a conviction in the Youth Court/ Crown Court 

2. Offence Categorisation:  For the data provided in response to question 1, please provide a further disaggregation by:

. Number and proportion of proven offences committed by children by offence group ( the statutory categorisation of the offence e.g violence with injury, violence without injury, rape, other sexual offences ) 

3. Case Closure Rates : 

Please specify the proportion of reported offences that are closed without the filing of formal charges. Further please provide a breakdown of the principal reasons for such closures ( e.g. insufficiency of evidence ,withdrawal of complaint by the aggrieved party) and where alternative out of court disposals were utilised,  the number that culminated in out of court disposals and a breakdown of the type of those out of court disposals( e.g youth causation, youth conditional causation, youth restorative disposal) .

I am a freelance journalist from Scotland. 

I am writing under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information, from 2024 to 2026:

1. All communications, decisions, records, meeting minutes, internal or external correspondence, and documented reasons regarding any approaches, requests, invitations or proposals received by your force to participate in or lead an independent investigation into the original police inquiry in the Emma Caldwell case (originally investigated by Strathclyde Police).

2. Please provide the reasons your force did not agree to undertake or assist with an investigation into the original Police Scotland (Strathclyde) inquiry in that case, including any resource, legal, policy, jurisdictional or other considerations.
3. Please provide copies of any internal review or analysis undertaken by your force in relation to whether it could assist with or take on any part of that investigative work.
4. Please also provide any guidance, policies, or procedures your force uses when considering whether to assist or take on investigative work outside your own territorial jurisdiction.