E-Scooters 1000/2023

FOI Reference: 1000/2023

Request Q1

Could you please tell me how many e-scooters (not e-bikes or any other form of electronic vehicle) were confiscated by your force in the following reporting periods?

 

Response Q1

	QUARTER 1	QUARTER 2	QUARTER 3	QUARTER 4
2019	No data	No data	No data	No data
2020	No data	No data	No data	No data
2021	No data	No data	No data	11
2022	No data	12	4	6
2023	No data	5	6	3

 

Request Q2

Please could you tell me the dates between 2019 and the present day of any changes in policy regarding the confiscation of e-scooters by your constabulary? And what those changes were?

(As an example: the Met police revised their policy on e-scooters (“Operation Hornet”) twice in this period. In Nov ‘21 they moved from confiscations as standard to a policy of discretion, education and warning illegal users. And in June ‘22 they further updated their policy with regards to juvenile offenders to incorporate contacting juvenile offenders parents or guardians when they were stopped).

 

Response Q2

There were no changes in Policy during this specified period.

 

Request Q3

Please can you tell me the number of deaths involving e-scooters recorded by your force in the three completed quarters of this year 2023?

(NB if you do not record by quarter, please provide the total figure for the year to date instead).

 

Response Q3

There have been zero deaths for e-scooters in this period.

 

(This is a response under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and disclosed on 01/05/2024)