FOI 350-25 Modern Slavery and Environment Agency

Request to Northamptonshire Police

Question 1. The number of records of contact, reported incidents, and recorded crimes from the past five years (1 January 2019 - 24 December 2024) of suspected modern slavery within the waste sector. Please can you provide a breakdown of the number of reports per year.

Question 2. Details of what the outcome of any completed investigation was - e.g were any arrests made.

Question 3. The number of times the Environment Agency reported suspected modern slavery to the police force over the past five years (1 January 2019 - 24 December 2024). Please can you provide a breakdown of the number of reports per year.

Question 4. Details of what these reports said. Please can this include the name of the site that was reported and details of the concerns raised.

Question 5. The number of incidents or recorded crimes of modern slavery within the waste sector that your police force referred to the National Crime Agency and/or partners in the Joint Waste Crime Unit (JWCU) in the last five years (1 January 2019 - 24 December 2024). Please state the number referred to the NCA, and the number referred to the JWCU separately

Question 6. Correspondence (including letters, emails, minutes of meetings and any relevant attachments) between the Environment Agency and constables, sergeants, and inspectors within the police force over the past year (1 January 2024 - 24 December 2024) relating to modern slavery within the waste sector.

Response

After extensive searches of Northamptonshire Police crime and reporting systems, it has been established that there is no readily identifiable link between Modern Slavery and the Environment Agency and/or waste sector.

I am therefore required to issue this Refusal Notice under Section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Compliance with the request would exceed the appropriate cost limit of £450.

This is because our analysts would need to locate, retrieve and manually scrutinise the free text of approximately 2500 files.

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