Collisions with suspect vehicles 491/2022

FOI Reference: 491/2022

Request:

I would like to know the number of Road Traffic Collisions / incidents with suspect vehicles that Police vehicles within the force have been involved in, and the costs for repairing those vehicles or instances where vehicles have been written off as a result of such collisions.

If possible, these figures to be split per year over the past five financial years where records exist.

Response:

I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, the details of which are as follows:

Financial year	No. of incidents	Costs
2017/2018	7	£15,559.64
2018/2019	8	£7,751.77
2019/2020	8	£39,363.21
2020/2021	10	£21,735.35
2021/2022	3	£4,376.56

                                                                                                           

It should be noted that owing to the systems adopted by Dyfed-Powys Police in relation to the recording of such matters the information provided may or may not be accurate.       

Police Forces in the United Kingdom are routinely required to provide statistics to government bodies and the recoding criteria is set nationally.  However, the systems used for recording these figures are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data.  It should be noted that for these reasons this Force’s response to your questions should not be used for comparison purposes with any other response you may receive.     

(This is a response under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and disclosed on 11/07/22)