Crimes Committed By Children - 471/20

Date Responded 22 April 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:

Please can you tell me the following information for the last 10 financial years: 2009/10; 2010/11; 2011/12; 2012/13; 2013/14; 2014/15; 2015/16; 2016/17; 2017/18; 2018/19

1. number of crimes committed by children aged under 10

2. nature of the 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 as follows.

The data below contains information wherein one of the suspect(s) for a given crime is under the age of 10 and the resolution of this crime is either Community Resolution, Detected or YOT Triage.

The outcome of the offence may not necessarily relate to a suspect who is under 10 if there are multiple suspects; to provide more certainty regarding this would require a case-by-case investigation and this exercise would exceed the permitted 18 hour threshold.

If you decide to write an article / use the enclosed data we would expect that you to take into consideration the factors highlighted above so as not to mislead members of the public or official bodies or misrepresent the relevance of the whole or any part of this disclosed material.

Fin Year	Burglary	Criminal damage	Drug crime	Vehicle crime	Violent crime	Other crime	Total
2009/2010	1	9		1	213	16	240
2010/2011		3	1	2	282	6	294
2011/2012		3			241	6	250
2012/2013					239	10	249
2013/2014		1			285	4	290
2014/2015		8		1	321	10	340
2015/2016	1	6			229	10	246
2016/2017		6	27	1	243	26	303
2017/2018	1	7	30	1	251	40	330
2019/2019		5	11	1	206	15	238
Total	38	560	86	25	9133	1011	10853

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.

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