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Freedom of Information Request 1190/18

Response Date:

Under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), I am requesting any police incident logs and crime reports involving unusual canine animal sightings, encounters or attacks within the South Wales area over the last 5 years. If it is not too much work, I would appreciate it if you could find reports dating further back (maybe 10 - 15 years?), but because I have no idea how many there may be, I don't know if this request would prove unreasonable or outside the allowed quota for a FOIA Request?

By unusual canine animal reports, I specifically refer to animals that may be referred to as dog/canine like cryptids.....most importantly, concentrating on the following keywords:

Large canine/wolf reportsUpright canine reportsBipedal canine reportsWerewolf reportsDogman reportsHyena like canine reports

I am aware that this request may seem 'out of this world' or bizarre, but people report encounters of these creatures all over the world, including in the UK and I would genuinely appreciate any effort in retrieving these incident logs and crime reports.

RESPONSE

We consulted with our analysts who conducted a search on the South Wales Police Crime and Incidents Records Management System (Niche RMS) for the key words ‘hyena’, ‘large canine’, ‘upright canine’, ‘bipedal’ ‘werewolf’ and ‘dogman’ in the occurrence summary. The Niche system has been used by South Wales Police since 2007.

10 occurrences were returned which were individually interrogated; none were found to be of relevance to your request.

Please note that this data has been gathered by searching our records management system for offences containing the keywords listed above. The results retrieved are dependent on how the information has been entered onto the system. As such, the information provided should not be considered statistically accurate and/or definitive and therefore, care should be taken when using for any further statistical, analytical or evaluative purposes.

 

 

THIS INFORMATION HAS BEEN PROVIDED IN RESPONSE TO A REQUEST UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000, AND IS CORRECT AS AT THE DATE ORIGINALLY PROVIDED.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the South Wales Police.

Freedom of Information Request

 

 

THIS INFORMATION HAS BEEN PROVIDED IN RESPONSE TO A REQUEST UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000, AND IS CORRECT AS AT THE DATE ORIGINALLY PROVIDED.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the South Wales Police.

Freedom of Information Request

 

 

THIS INFORMATION HAS BEEN PROVIDED IN RESPONSE TO A REQUEST UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000, AND IS CORRECT AS AT THE DATE ORIGINALLY PROVIDED.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the South Wales Police.

Freedom of Information Request

 

 

THIS INFORMATION HAS BEEN PROVIDED IN RESPONSE TO A REQUEST UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000, AND IS CORRECT AS AT THE DATE ORIGINALLY PROVIDED.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the South Wales Police.

Freedom of Information Request