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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. Stats from the Central Area Command level regarding the number of domestic abuse related offences reported in 2019 and 2020 with a breakdown by gender, age and ethnicity. Could you please provide information about both incidents of DV and also crimes flagged as DV, as separate figures.

2. Stats from the Central Area Command level regarding shoplifting offences from 2019 and 2020.

3. Stats regarding both ‘Mental health’ and ‘mental health related’ offences from the Central Area Command level from 2019 and 2020. Relating to this query, please could this data relate to mental health incidents, including detainments under mental health act, rather than notifiable crimes.

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 with the following caveats noted:

• One crime may have multiple victims, and as such the number of victims may not match the number of incidents or crimes.

• The way in which we record mental health incidents changed in April 2019, as such there is a notable disparity between the count of incidents before and after this point.

1.

	2019	2020			2019	2020
DA Incidents	13276	13729		DA Crimes	8967	8556
Victim Gender				Victim Gender
F	10510	10825		F	6712	6239
M	2752	2880		M	1901	1938
U	14	24		U	357	383
Victim Age				Victim Age
0-16	57	67		0-16	148	116
17-20	808	993		17-20	767	651
21-30	3041	4003		21-30	2730	2487
31-40	2867	4044		31-40	2343	2338
41-50	1570	2414		41-50	1385	1399
51-60	1016	1303		51-60	804	725
61-70	393	585		61-70	289	329
71-80	158	197		71-80	105	85
81-90	42	89		81-90	36	39
90+	2	3		90-100	4	3
Unknown	20	31		Unknown	359	388
Victim Ethnicity				Victim Ethnicity
Asian or Asian British	627	629		Asian or Asian British	310	328
Black or Black British	235	203		Black or Black British	104	93
Mixed	42	44		Mixed	30	28
Other/Unknown	803	943		Other/Unknown	947	843
White	11569	11910		White	7579	7268

 

2.

	2019	2020
Shoplifting	5509	3424

 

3.

	2019	2020
Mental Health Related Incidents	7300	9337
S136 Arrests	85	51

 

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

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

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