Mistaken Home Raids

How many homes have mistakenly been broken into during police raids in 2007, 2008, 2009 and so far in 2010?

For each could you please indicate the method of entering the property (broke down the door/ smashed window etc) and what the cost of repairing the damage/compensation was.

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

I am unable to confirm whether or not we hold the information you have requested. In order to ascertain if we do in fact hold such information would require a manual search of all person records and links to addresses and/or intelligence information. In addition a search of claims made for compensation for the last three years to see if any were successful or whether any such claims were settled informally. This it is estimated would exceed the appropriate limit. The appropriate limit is defined in the Data Protection and Freedom of Information (Fees and Appropriate Limit) Regulations 2004, which is covered by statutory Instrument Number 3244 of 2004. Furthermore, Section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 allows a public authority to refuse to respond to a request for information where the cost of compliance would exceed the appropriate limit as defined by the above mentioned regulations.

I can add from previous similar requests that no compensation has been paid specifically because the wrong address was subject of a police raid and as far as is generally known there is no anecdotal information to suggest that such an event has occurred. Unfortunately we cannot confirm this as fact within the FOI cost limits.