FOI 1131-25 Children flagged as CCE, County Lines or Looked After
Request to Northamptonshire Police
1. The number of children (17 and under) who were flagged as victims of Child Criminal Exploitation in relation to county lines drug dealing and separately, the number of these children who were recorded as being in care (looked-after child). If possible, with age, gender and ethnicity provided for each sets.
2. The number of children (17 and under) who were charged with drug supply offences related to county lines drug dealing and separately, the number of these children who were recorded as being in care (looked-after child). If possible, with age, gender and ethnicity provided for both sets.
3. Number of missing incidents of children (17 and under) who were missing from care with the following information provided:
- Age
- Gender
- Ethnicity
- Location reported missing from (local or out of force area)
- Whether the child had been assigned a child criminal exploitation/county lines flag.
- If possible, the type of care setting child was missing from.
Response
Unfortunately, Northamptonshire Police are unable to provide you with the information requested. Compliance with your request would require our analysts to manually review at least 1406 records to establish if a child was linked to criminal exploitation, county lines activity or looked after. To do this would exceed the appropriate cost limit of £450.
Accordingly, please accept this Refusal Notice under s12(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (The Act).
We always strive to provide the highest level of service that we can with the finite resources at our disposal. However, to provide advice and assistance to help you revise your request as outlined in s16 of The Act, it is suggested that we may be able to provide total figures regarding: -
Under 18s linked as a Victim, Suspect or Offender for Drug Related Offences
Under 18s linked as a Victim, Suspect or Offender for Modern Slavery & Human Trafficking Offences
For the period 01/01/2022 to 01/01/2025.