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Acid attacks - 438/20

Date Responded 17 March 2020

Provision of information held by Northumbria Police made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the 'Act')

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.

You asked:

  1. I would like to request the number of offences that were categorised as an acid attack or corrosive fluid offence between 1st January 2019 and 31st December 2019 inclusive, broken down by month where possible; and
  2. The percentage and or number of said offences mentioned in 1. that were recorded as Violent Offences within the category ‘Violence Against the Person’ also broken down by month; and
  3. Where available the percentage and or number of said offences mentioned in 1. that were flagged as Hate Crimes also broken down by month; and
  4. The ethnicity, age and gender of victims of the said Violent Offences mentioned in 2. broken down by month; and
  5. The ethnicity, age and gender of suspects in the said Violent Offences mentioned in 2. broken down by month; and
  6. The outcomes of the said Violent Offences mentioned in 2. broken down by month; and
  7. Of the said positive outcomes mentioned in 6. the ethnicity, age and gender of suspects broken down by month.

In Response:

Following receipt of your request, searches were conducted with the Corporate Development Department of Northumbria Police.  I can confirm that the information you have requested is held by Northumbria Police.

I am able to disclose the located information to you as follows.

Please see the attached document which should satisfy the points raised in your request.

Acid attacks - 438/20

Disclaimer

Due to the different methods of recording information across 43 forces, a specific response from one constabulary should not be seen as an indication of what information could be supplied (within cost) by another. Systems used for recording these figures are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data. For this reason responses between forces may differ, and should not be used for comparative purposes.

The information we have supplied to you is likely to contain intellectual property rights of Northumbria Police. Your use of the information must be strictly in accordance with the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 (as amended) or such other applicable legislation. In particular, you must not re-use this information for any commercial purpose.

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