Pest Control Services

Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FOI/25/008916/I

Version Date: 03/11/2025

The South West Police Procurement Service, the Buildings & Estate Department, the Performance & Analysis Department, the Health and Safety Department, and the Alliance Finance Department have provided the following information:

Please provide the following information for the period 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2025, broken down by financial year:

1) Total expenditure by the police force on pest control services, including both in-house provision and external/contracted services.

2) If any services are contracted out, please provide the supplier name(s) and the contract value(s).

Not applicable, no contracts have been put in place for pest control.

3) The number of call-outs/treatments by species category (e.g. rats, mice, pigeons, gulls, foxes, grey squirrels, wasps, bedbugs, cockroaches—please use your own categories if recorded differently).

Please note, this is the number of reactive callouts for each financial year.  Preventative visits are undertaken regularly at various sites, and no record is held of the method used.

4) For any lethal control commissioned or carried out by the force, the number of animals killed by species and, where recorded, the method used (e.g. trapping, poisoning, shooting).

Information not held; the number of animals killed and the method of destruction are not recorded in our data.

5) A copy of any policy, guidance, or standard operating procedure relating to the force’s pest control service or contractors.

No information held; there is no specific policy, guidance, or standard operating procedure relating to the Force’s pest control service or contractors.