FOI 4556-25 Police callouts to motorway services

Request:

Please provide the following data for the period January 2020 – December 2024.

The total number of times police were called to motorway service areas within your force area during this period.

1. A breakdown of the nature of the incidents (e.g., theft, violent crime, drug-related offences, anti-social behaviour, vehicle crime, public order offences).
2. The number of arrests made at motorway services during this period, if available, If possible, a list of the specific motorway service areas included in the data

Response:

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.

Incidents searched for all reports at Motorway Service Stations within the county between 2020 and 2024 and custody searched for all arrests.

Please note, incidents will include those occurring in the car park or where the service station is the nearest identifiable landmark e.g RTC on motorway.

Location = Northampton Services - Northbound and Southbound at J15A M1 and Watford Gap Services - Northbound and Southbound between J16-17 M1.

Arrests = 180

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.