Operation Snap (FOI Ref: 513/26)

FOI Request Reference: 513/26

Thank you for your request for information, received 22/2/2026

Request

Please provide information on the number of Operation Snap submissions where you have failed to review and respond within the time frame required to issue a Notice of Intended prosecution. Between the 12-month period January 2025 to Dec 2025.

Response

Please find enclosed our response.

Please see the total from January 2025 - December 2025

Also, for your general information please see the link below:

Operation Snap | West Midlands Police

Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that this data has been extracted from a number of data sources used by forces for police purposes. The detail collected to respond specifically to your request may be subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording system. Consequently, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are considered when interpreting the data. 

The figures provided therefore are our best interpretation of data which has relevance to your request, but you should be aware that the collation of figures for ad hoc requests may have limitations and this should be considered when those data are used.  

If you decide to write an article / use the enclosed data, we would ask you to take into consideration the factors highlighted in this document so as to not mislead members of the public or official bodies or misrepresent the relevance of the whole or any part of this disclosed material.