Hunting with Dogs

  • Reference Number: 1897
  • Date released: 26 May 2009

Request

According to the Police and Crime Standards Directorate at the Home Office:

'The principal aim of the National Standard for Incident Recording is to ensure that all appropriate incidents, be they crime or non-crime, are recorded by police in a consistent and accurate manner, so as to allow resulting data to be used at a local and national level to meet the management and performance information needs of all stakeholders.'

When an incident involving hunting with dogs is reported to the Cheshire police which code is assigned by the relevant personnel to the incident?

Response

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

Incidents created Command and Control in relation to Hunting are opened and closed with the below code:-

SL - PROTEST / DEMONSTRATION (INDUSTRIAL / HUNT / FARMERS ETC)

Under a Sec 16 Duty to Assist - This is a Non Notifiable Offence within the National Crime Recording Standards and is therefore classified under Home Office Offence code 121.

For further information please see the below link for the National Standard for Incident Recording (NSIR).

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