FOI 11081-25 Cyclists arrested

Request to Northamptonshire Police:

In 2023 can you tell me how many cyclists your force arrested for breaches of any of the following laws, as prefixed by the associated HC rule.

Rule 60 - RVLR regs 13, 18 & 24
Rule 62 - HA 1835 sect 72
Rule 64 - HA 1835 sect 72 & R(S)A sect 129
Rule 68 - RTA 1988 sects 24, 26, 28, 29 & 30 as amended by RTA 1991
Rule 69 - RTA 1988 sect 36 & TSRGD schedule 3 part 3, schedule 7 part 4, schedule 9 parts 4 and 6, schedule 13 part 6, schedule 14 part 2
Rule 71 - RTA 1988 sect 36 & TSRGD Schedule 14 part 1

Wanton and furious driving - OAPA 1861

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.

Custody searched from 1st January 2023 to 31st December 2023 for all arrests made under the relevant CCCJS code and anything where the keyword 'cycle' is mentioned in the reason for arrest. This resulted in a nil response.

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.
The numerical data presented in this response is an un-audited snapshot of un-published data sourced from "live" systems and is subject to the interpretation of the original request by the individual extracting the data.

Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that the data has been extracted from a number of data sources used by forces for police purposes. The detail collected to respond specifically to your request is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when interpreting the data.

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.

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