FOI 801/25

REQUEST

Please can I have the number of incidents reported at all School Crossing Patrols, along with the name of the crossing the incident occurred.

I have provided a table below for you to fill out:

RESPONSE

Your request for information has now been considered and I am not obliged to supply the information you have requested.       

Section 17(5) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 requires South Wales Police, when refusing to provide such information (because the information is exempt) to provide you the applicant with a notice which: 

(a) states that fact,

(b) specifies the exemption in question and

(c) states (if that would not otherwise be apparent) why the exemption applies.

In relation to your particular request, the following exemption applies:

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

A search has been conducted for all crimes and incidents recorded between 1^st January 2022 and 13^th June 2025 (the date of your request) where ‘Preparatory/First/Primary/Infant/Junior/Middle School’ or ‘Secondary/High School’ is selected as the ‘Tertiary Address Description’.

This search retrieved 12,374 results.

We estimate that it would take approximately 1 – 2 minutes to individually interrogate each occurrence on our crime and incident recording system (Niche RMS) in order to establish if the incident location was recorded as a school crossing.

We therefore estimate that it would take in excess of 206 hours to answer your request.

It is estimated that the cost of providing you with the information is above the amount to which we are legally required to respond i.e. the cost of locating and retrieving the information exceeds the "appropriate level" as stated in the Freedom of Information (Fees and Appropriate Limit) Regulations 2004.

In the case of the police service, the appropriate limit is £450 which has been calculated to equate to a total of 18 hours of work.

If any part of the request exceeds the fees limit then Section 12 applies to the whole request.

In accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000, this letter acts as a refusal notice.

Excess cost removes the forces obligation under the Freedom of Information Act, however under Section 16 – Duty to provide advice and assistance, an authority is required to offer an applicant the opportunity to redefine their request within the cost limit. Unfortunately, due to the way in which the data is recorded, we can see no feasible way in which you could refine your request.