Fixed Penalty Notices - Chester and Ellesmere Port

I would like to request a figure for the number of Penalty Notices for Disorder issued in the period April 2007 - March 2008, or if possible the most up to date information available.

Clarified by phone 17/12/2008 to read Chester and Ellesmere Port area.

Also, I would like to request the number of summonses to Chester and Ellesmere Port courts in the same period.

In accordance with section 1(1) (b) of the Act our response is provided below;

The offence location for PNDs is 'free text' so our database only holds what the officer has put on the ticket. Therefore, it is impossible to get an exact figure for a geographical area. Even if we searched each individual notice, you would then have to have knowledge of an area. For example the officer may have written Shoplifting - Marks and Spencer, Gemini Retail Park or Drunk and Disorderly - The Dog and Gun, High Street.

Therefore the attached data is the best we can supply. The search parameters that have been used to extract the data includes any notice where the offence address/location includes the word 'Chester' or 'Ellesmere Port'. If the officer has just put a district for the location such as Lache rather than Lache, Chester the data will not be captured in these figures.

Therefore, the number of PNDs issued for Chester and Ellesmere Port between 01/04/07 and 31/03/08 was approx 384.
This figure should be used only as a guide and not quoted as definitive statistics.

In relation to the second part of your question, the number of summonses issued is 307.