FOI/2000 Serious Disruption Prevention Orders
Provision of information held by Northumbria Police made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the 'Act')
Thank you for your email received on the 4 December 2025 in which you made a request for access to certain information which may be held by Northumbria Police.
As you may be aware the purpose of the Act is to allow a general right of access to information held at the time of a request, by a Public Authority (including the Police), subject to certain limitations and exemptions.
Please note that this request has been aggregated with your additional request also received 4 December 2025 (FOI/2001) with regards to time constraints under the Act, as they refer to the same subject area.
We have now had the opportunity to fully consider your request, and we provide a response for your attention.
Following receipt of your request, searches were conducted with the Corporate Development, Criminal Justice and Custody and Legal Departments of Northumbria Police. We can confirm that the information you have requested is held by Northumbria Police.
We are able to disclose the located information to you as follows.
You asked:
If available, please provide a breakdown of the following information for the Serious Disruption Prevention Order(s) (SDPOs) that your force has issued under Sections 12 or 14 of the Public Order Act 1986.
1. The number of SDPOs that were issued between 5 April 2024 and 31 October 2025.
2. The prohibitions and/or requirements that were imposed by the SDPOs referred to in Q1.
3. The number of SDPOs referred to in Q1 that were breached and/or in the event that a single SDPO was breached more than once, the total number of breaches between 5 April 2024 to 31 October 2025.
4. For breaches of SDPOs between 5 April 2024 and 31 October 2025, the enforcement action, including any prosecutions, taken in response.
5. If available, please also provide a breakdown of the demographics including age, ethnicity, gender, religion, and citizenship status of the person(s) subject to the SDPO.
In relation to point 1, searches returned zero results. Accordingly, this is a nil return for your query at this point and the queries at points 2-5 are not applicable.