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Coercive control - 374/19

Date Responded 05 April 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:

  1. How many people were arrested under Section 76 of the Serious Crime Act 2015 for 'Controlling or Coercive Behaviour in an Intimate or Family Relationship' in (please provide data for each full year respectively):

2015

2016

2017

2018

2.Please provide a breakdown of the official recorded crime outcomes of the arrests set out above in Q1 (charged, cautioned, no further action etc.), for each of the 4 years respectively: 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018.

3.Please can you provide the ages and gender of those charged or cautioned for the offences mentioned in Q1 for 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018

In Response:

With regards to point 1 and 2 the below exemption is applied as relevant.

As the information you have requested is accessible by other means I have not provided you with a copy of the information and will rely on Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.  You should therefore consider this a refusal for your request.

I have provided an explanation to this exemption below.

Section 21 (1) - Information accessible by other means

Information which is reasonably accessible to the applicant is exempt information.

Your request at points 1 and 2 is almost identical to a previous request which is published on the Northumbria Police Disclosure Log.  That information is therefore freely available.

FOI 101/19  refers .

With regards to point 3 I respond as follows

Age group

Male

2016

16 to 20

2

26 to 30

1

41 to 45

1

46 to 50

1

61 to 65

1

71 to 75

1

2017

21 to 25

1

26 to 30

3

31 to 35

1

36 to 40

3

46 to 50

1

56 to 60

1

61 to 65

1

2018

26 to 30

3

31 to 35

1

36 to 40

2

41 to 45

1

46 to 50

1

51 to 55

2

56 to 60

1

Total

29

 

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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