Offences whilst on bail

1. How many people have been charged with the following offences in your force area, while on bail, in years:
   2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010.  With the offences of Murder/Attempted Murder, Rape/Attempted rape, Armed robbery. Please, if possible, can you present the figures year by year, with the age and gender of the suspect, as well as the date, location and nature of the charge. 
2. How many suspects are currently being sought after failing to answer bail in your force area?
3. Please could you list the types of charges involved, or if that is too large a task, could you say how many of those are facing charges of Murder, Attempted murder, Rape, Attempted rape, Armed robbery, Attempted armed robbery, Sexual offences against a child, Making indecent images of children.  
4. Please could you tell me how long is the longest outstanding warrant in relation to the above?

I would like to clarify that by "bail" I meant only court bail, ie. post-charge bail, not any other kind.

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

I can confirm that the authority holds the information you are requesting.

In considering whether or not your requests should be aggregated or dealt with separately I have determined that your request is concerned entirely with bail and kindred matters and as such no part of your request should be considered separately.

Therefore in accordance with section 12 (1) of the Act we are unable to provide the information you have requested as to do so 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 have arrived at this decision after taking into account the work required to not only to determine if the information was held but also to locate, retrieve and extract the information from other information in order to disclose it. The first request would require the manual examination of all custody records and or case files for the six plus years of the request, that is approximately 180,000 records to be examined. This alone would probably take around 18 months work for one person.

We are unable to offer a solution to your request that would produce meaningful information within the cost limits.