FOI 57707

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NO: 57707

I write in connection with your request for information which was received on 10^th February 2021. Please find below the response to your request:

Please may you provide me with:

The total revenue in administration fees from motorists whose vehicles have been stolen or damaged and later recovered and those whose vehicles had to be recovered following an accident.

The fees separately between vehicles stolen, those which were damaged and those which were recovered from accidents.

The total number of vehicles which have been stolen and which had administration fees charged to them, the total number of vehicles damaged which had administration fees charged to them, and total number of vehicles recovered from accidents which had administration fees charged to them.

Could each request above be made for each calendar year for the last five years in which figures are available.

Reply:-

Please note that West Mercia Police do not differentiate between damaged and those involved in accidents, they fall under the same category and we categorise the recoveries as follows:

Stolen

RTC

Please see below table of income generated from admin fees on Stolen & RTC vehicles for 2016 – 2020. However, please note that in 2017 we changed our system, therefore can only provide figures from July – Dec 2017