01/FOI/26/007835/Z - Officers injured on duty

Request:

For the period 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2025, please provide: 

1. The number of police officers injured while on duty who required admission to hospital.
2. Of those officers, how many returned to work on their next scheduled shift.
3. Please provide a yearly breakdown 

Response:

Following liaison with the relevant department, Humberside Police can confirm that we hold information in relation to your request.

It has been advised that it is not possible to retrieve any part of your request within the ‘appropriate limit’ (18 – hours). This is because the information that you are requesting is not stored in a way which permits easy retrieval and would involve a manual read of each record during the timeframe requested. Therefore S12 of the Act applies.

Section 12 – Exemption where cost of compliance exceeds the appropriate limit.

s1(1) does not oblige a public authority to comply with a request for information if the authority estimates that the cost of complying with the request would exceed the ‘appropriate limit’ (18 – hours).

Activities that may be counted within our time estimations are:

• Determining if the information is held;
• Locating the information, or a document containing it;
• Retrieving the information, or a document containing it; and
• Extracting the information from a document containing it.

The following have not been included within our calculations:

• The time spent identifying information to be exempted
• The time dedicated to the process of redaction.

Please take this as a refusal notice in accordance with section 17(5) of the Act which states; A public authority which, in relation to any request for information, is relying on a claim that section 12 or 14 applies must, within the time for complying with section 1(1), give the applicant a notice stating that fact.

Ordinarily under our section 16 duty to provide advice and assistance, we would advise you how to refine your request to a more manageable level. However, due to the difficulties outlined above, I cannot see how this can be achieved in this case.