FOI request detail

CCTV/Data relating to police reports of the incident in May 200

Request ID: FOI-2442-2122
Date published: 15 February 2022

You asked
I would like to request for data under the Freedom of Information Act. I am requesting CCTV/Data relating to police reports of the incident in May 2007, 14years ago. Would you have any of the CCTV of passenger data, or any other data, of incidents on London Underground from 2007? Is this data retained under any circumstances? Death? Crime or anything? The data I am requesting is of death/crime from May 2007 on the London Underground. Police reports, If not CCTV? This would be passenger data. Clarification received 30/01/2022: Please tell me what information you retain relating to deaths and crimes on the network. I am interested in the general police crime and death data for the London Underground. Please send me the location of any published e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2011/oct/05/murder-london-list#data

We answered

TfL Ref: FOI-2442-2122

Thank you for your email of 30th January 2022 asking for information about crime data and CCTV footage.

Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act and our information access policy. 

Specifically you asked:

“Please tell me what information you retain relating to deaths and crimes on the network. I am interested in the general police crime and death data for the London Underground.
Please send me the location of any published e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2011/oct/05/murder-london-list#data”

TfL publishes regular “Crime and incident bulletins” going back to 2007/08 on our website via the following link:

https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publications-and-reports/crime-and-incident-bulletins

In accordance with section 21 of the FOI Act, we are not obliged to supply you with a copy of the requested information as it is already accessible to you elsewhere.

In regard to CCTV footage, which you referenced in your earlier emails, TfL does not retain CCTV footage pertaining to criminal incidents once this has been passed to the police. The British Transport Police (BTP) may hold more information in relation to your request. FOI requests to the BTP can made via its website here:

https://www.btp.police.uk/foi-ai/af/accessing-information/

If this is not the information you are looking for, or if you are unable to access it for any reason, please do not hesitate to contact me

Please see the attached information sheet for details of your right to appeal as well as information on copyright and what to do if you would like to re-use any of the information we have disclosed.

Yours sincerely,

David Wells
FOI Case Officer
FOI Case Management Team
General Counsel
Transport for London

 

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