Resources

Useful Information – some pages are password-protected for subscriber access only

Contents

DVLA release of information from registers

Ref INF266 provision of information to the police, local authorities and controlled release to third parties who offer practical motoring benefits

correct as of 01/2025 – to whom vehicle keeper information can be provided and how to obtain it

Freedom of Information Act Requests

WhatDoTheyKnow.com – WDTK – a free resource to request information and monitor the response.

More information about the FoIA can be read here and a list of constabulary FoI email addresses appears below.

Home Office Counting Rules for Recorded Crime w/e 04/2022

Rules & Classifications for the main vehicle-related crimes

Theft of vehicle, aggravated taking and fraud-related offences about those who dishonestly acquire &/or dispose of a vehicle

NPCC, FoIA & Clearing House

03/2025 Police unit dubbed ‘authoritarian censor (BBC)
10/2025 Police unit blocking FOI requests U-turns on promised reforms (BBC)

2025 Disclosure concerning the NPCC CRU

Police Contacts

Private

Police Freedom of Information Act email addresses

a directory is maintained here. However, there are occasions when it is preferable, or necessary, to email each constabulary. The below collection, accurate as at 01/2026, can be cut and pasted into an email ‘to’ or ‘bcc’ as required.

If any of the below are found to be out of date, please advise by email with the current email address, if obtained, and an amendment will be made. For individual approaches, please consider the service at WDTK which places your request in the public domain – it may be of benefit to others and/or prevent others unnecessarily wasting a constabulary’s time.

foirequests@avonandsomerset.police.uk;
foi@bedfordshire.pnn.police.uk;
foi@cambs.pnn.police.uk;
requests@cheshire.police.uk;
foi@cityoflondon.police.uk;
information.rights.requests@cleveland.police.uk;
freedomofinformation@cumbria.police.uk;
FOI@derbyshire.police.uk;
foi@devonandcornwall.pnn.police.uk;
foi@dorset.pnn.police.uk;
foirequests@durham.police.uk;
info.rights.freedom@essex.police.uk;
FOI@gloucestershire.police.uk;
freedomofinformation@gmp.police.uk;
public.access@hampshire.pnn.police.uk;
foi@herts.pnn.police.uk;
informationgovernanceunit@humberside.police.uk;
freedomofinformation@kent.pnn.police.uk;
foi@lancashire.police.uk;
foi@leics.police.uk;
foi@lincs.police.uk;
foi@merseyside.police.uk;
foi@met.police.uk;
freedom@norfolk.police.uk;
CivilDisclosure@northyorkshire.police.uk;
freedomofinformation@northants.police.uk;
freedom.info@northumbria.pnn.police.uk;
freedomofinformation@notts.police.uk;
FOI@southyorks.pnn.police.uk;
foi@staffordshire.police.uk;
information@suffolk.police.uk;
foi@surrey.pnn.police.uk;
foi@sussex.police.uk;
information@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk;
freedom.information@warwickshire.police.uk;
information@westmercia.pnn.police.uk;
foi@westmidlands.police.uk;
FOI@westyorkshire.police.uk;
disclosure@wiltshire.police.uk;
foi@btp.police.uk;
foi@dyfed-powys.pnn.police.uk;
foi@gwent.pnn.police.uk;
FreedomofInformationTeam@nthwales.pnn.police.uk;
information@south-wales.police.uk;
foi@scotland.police.uk;
foi@psni.pnn.police.uk;