FOI 5543-25 Sex Offenders managed by MAPPA Name Changes
Request to Northamptonshire Police
I am submitting this request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 regarding the management of sex offenders under the Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA) by your force.
For the period 30th September 2023 to 30 September 2024, please provide the following information:
1. How many sex offenders were managed by your force under MAPPA during this period?
2. How many of these were classified as high risk?
3. How many sex offenders currently managed under MAPPA by your force are recorded as missing?
4. How many risk-managed sex offenders notified your force of a name change during this period?
Response
Following receipt of your request searches were conducted within Northamptonshire Police to locate information relevant to your request. I can confirm that the information you have requested is held.
However, Northamptonshire Police are unable to provide you with the information requested because it is not held in an easily retrievable format. Compliance with your request in relation to Question 4 would require our analysts to manually review 2,175 records of all registered sex offenders to establish how many have notified us of a change of name.
We estimate this would take approximately 5 minutes per record which 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. Under our Duty to offer advice and assistance to help you revise your request as outlined in s16 of The Act, we advise that in order for the force to keep this within the fees limit, the information that you are requesting will need to be for a greatly reduced time period. The resulting response cannot be guaranteed at this point as it will be dependent upon the number of records that fall within the scope of any new request, as they would still have to be manually assessed.
Due to the different methods of recording information across 43 forces, a specific response from one constabulary should not be seen as an indication of what information could be supplied (within cost) by another. Systems used for recording these figures are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data. For this reason, responses between forces may differ and should not be used for comparative purposes.