Maritime Police Unit

Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FOI/24/007183/S

Version Date: 07/02/2025

The Alliance People Department and the Alliance Operations Department have provided the following information.

am seeking some information on the Underwater Search Team/Maritime Police Unit within Devon and Cornwall Police.

Could you provide the following information for the financial years 2023-2024 and 2024 up to the point of this request:

-           Number of deployments within Devon and Cornwall
01/04/23 to 31/03/24           10 dive deployments

01/04/24 to 16/10/24           18 dive deployments

-           Number and locations of mutual aid deployments
One mutal aid deployment to South Wales and one to East Sussex.

-           Funding received to aid training and development of team

Total training and development cost £41,127.97.

Devon & Cornwall Police can neither confirm nor deny any further information is held by virtue of Section 23(5) of the FOI Act.

Section 23 is an absolute exemption and there is no requirement to consider the

public interest in this case.

The police service in its’ fight against crime and terrorism may engage at times with the bodies listed at Section 23 of the FOI Act and on occasions there may be information provided to police from one of these bodies.

Section 1(1) (a) of the Act requires a public authority to confirm whether it holds the information that has been requested. Section 23(5) provides an exemption from this duty and states that:

“The duty to confirm or deny does not arise if, or to the extent that, compliance with section 1(1) (a) would involve the disclosure of any information (whether or not already recorded) which was directly or indirectly supplied by, or relates to, any of the bodies specified in subsection (3).