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Aiding Suicide - 1214/19

Date Responded 06 November 2019

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:

Please could you tell me:

  1. The number of recorded crimes, under Section 2(1) of the 1961 Suicide Act, for aiding and abetting suicide between 6th April 2012 and 30th July 2019. Can these be broken down by year please. If helpful, it is my understanding that Section 2(1) of the 1961 Suicide Act may be recorded as code 76 ‘Aiding Suicide’ by the Home Office.
  2. For each recorded crime, was a suspect: 

 Interviewed under caution

Arrested

Charged

3. What was the outcome of each arrest? If a suspect was released, what was the reason for release? – e.g. Type 9 (Prosecution not in the public interest) etc.

4. Which (if any) of the recorded crimes under Section 2(1) of the 1961 Suicide Act are related to the words/phrases "Dignitas", "terminal illness", "terminally ill", "assisted dying" , "assisted suicide", or "euthanasia"?

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 not held by Northumbria Police.

Searches of our crime recording system for the offence and time period requested by you has brought back no recorded crimes.

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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