FOI 1010-25 Case load and time use

Request:

I am writing to request data under the Freedom of Information Act on the caseload and time use in the police forces in England and Wales. I would like any data relating to the hours/minutes per day/month and the number of cases that the average police officer dedicates to specific activities. I am specifically interested in the split between time spent on:

First, non-crime demand (like responding to mental health, welfare and social care calls).
Second, core policing responsibilities like patrolling, emergency response, intelligence gathering, prison interviewing, crime prevention etc.
Third, administrative tasks, HR activities like training, staff management etc.

Additionally, I am interested in the data broken down by:

First, data for each year from 2010 (or the earliest year you have available) onwards. If you do not hold longitudinal data, I'd appreciate stock data for the latest year possible.
Second, the hours/minutes per day/month and the number of cases that the average police officer dedicates to specific activities, split by type of police officer (i.e. sergeant, constable etc.) If that's not available, please feel free to disregard this variable.
Third, police force area or the lowest level of geography available (like Community Safety Partnerships). Even if you possess data for just a few police force areas, that would be very valuable.

I understand you might not have the data down to this level of specificity, but I've indicated above some second-best alternatives should you have those to hand instead. If all you have is data relating to either caseload, or time use, please send whichever you have access to.

Response:

Northamptonshire Police systems are designed primarily for the management of individual cases and not for the production of statistical information for Freedom Of Information responses.

Northamptonshire Police do not routinely record time spent on policing activities. This forms part of Police Officers carrying out their normal daily duties.

Freedom Of Information legislation concerns recorded information within an organisation, public bodies are not obliged to create/work out data/percentages to facilitate such requests.

Therefore, information is not held