FOI 820-25 Smoking in a vehicle

Request:

I am submitting an FOI request for the following information relating to smoking in cars.

1. How many fines and fixed penalty notices has your force issued under the Children and Families Act 2014 for smoking in a private vehicle with children (under 18 years old) present?

2. How many incidents and warnings under the Children and Families Act 2014 for smoking in a private vehicle with children (under 18 years old) present has your force identified?

Please return data broken down and split annually from 1st January 2015 to 31st December 2024.

Response:

Searches were conducted in the fixed penalty processing system using the CCCJS code and also in our crime recording system using a keyword search of the MO/Occurrence summary to see if anything had been recorded here.

As with any keyword search, the search will only return exact matches. This does not account for differences in terminology and/or spelling used. Keyword searches are problematic and in no way provide accurate results or figures. If the selected key words have not been mentioned the data will not be returned.

1. 0
2. 0

This offence would fall under Council’s “Smokefree Enforcement” and is also dealt with by Council Enforcement Officers. You may wish to contact North and West Northamptonshire Councils.

Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. The figures provided therefore are our best interpretation of relevance of data to your request, but you should be aware that the collation of figures for ad hoc requests may have limitations and this should be taken into account when the data is used.

If you decide to write an article / use the enclosed data we would ask you to take into consideration the factors highlighted in this document so as to not mislead members of the public or official bodies or misrepresent the relevance of the whole or any part of this disclosed material.