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:
You asked:
1. Please disclose the total number of recorded crimes that were committed in GP practices or health centres in:
a) 2016-17
b) 2017-18
c) 2018-19
d) 2019-20
e) 2020-21
f) 2021-22
2. Please provide a breakdown of how these recorded crimes in GP practices or health centres were categorised in:
a) 2016-17
b) 2017-18
c) 2018-19
d) 2019-20
e) 2020-21
f) 2021-22
(I.e please disclose the number of crimes that were recorded as theft, the number that were recorded as anti-social behaviour, the number that were recorded as violent assault, etc)
In Response:
We have now had the opportunity to fully consider your request and I provide a response for your attention.
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 in part by Northumbria Police.
I am able to disclose the located information to you with the following noted.
• The data has been taken where the location was one of the following: Dental Surgery; Health Centre; Surgery; Surgery Dental or Surgery Doctors.
• It should be noted that when using location types, the crimes may not have anything to do with the business carried out at the premise, rather it just occurred at that location type, for example, the crime may have occurred in the grounds when the property was closed.
• As one of your time periods (2021/22) was incomplete at the time this request was received, this data cannot be provided as it was not held at the time the request was submitted. As you may be aware a request made under FOI is for information held at the time a valid request is received.
• If you would like data for the 2021/22 financial year you may wish to resubmit your request when the financial year is complete and information will be held. However, you should note that any resubmission will be considered as a new request and aggregated with this one due to the cost/time implications under the Acts legislation.
1–2.
|
Offence Type |
2016/17 |
2017/18 |
2018/19 |
2019/20 |
2020/21 |
Total |
|
Assault without injury |
5 |
11 |
11 |
11 |
9 |
47 |
|
Burglary - Business and Community |
20 |
19 |
30 |
10 |
11 |
90 |
|
Burglary - residential |
- |
- |
2 |
- |
- |
2 |
|
Criminal damage - Dwelling |
- |
1 |
1 |
- |
- |
2 |
|
Criminal damage - Other |
13 |
13 |
7 |
21 |
7 |
61 |
|
Criminal damage - Other than dwelling |
27 |
26 |
22 |
21 |
15 |
111 |
|
Criminal damage - Vehicle |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
1 |
2 |
|
Drug - Possession |
1 |
2 |
- |
- |
- |
3 |
|
Drug - Supply |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
1 |
|
Fraud and forgery |
3 |
5 |
2 |
1 |
- |
11 |
|
Harassment |
21 |
14 |
22 |
28 |
12 |
97 |
|
Less serious violence against the person |
3 |
5 |
4 |
2 |
- |
14 |
|
Miscellaneous crime |
2 |
- |
2 |
1 |
- |
5 |
|
Modern Slavery |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
- |
1 |
|
Other serious sexual offences / Other sexual offences / Rape |
3 |
3 |
5 |
8 |
3 |
22 |
|
Other theft and handling |
23 |
29 |
21 |
23 |
7 |
103 |
|
Other violence |
3 |
12 |
7 |
5 |
2 |
29 |
|
Public disorder |
68 |
76 |
83 |
62 |
31 |
320 |
|
Shoplifting |
- |
2 |
- |
- |
- |
2 |
|
Theft from motor vehicle |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
|
Theft from the person |
- |
1 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
6 |
|
Theft of a pedal cycle |
3 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
- |
7 |
|
Total |
196 |
220 |
223 |
197 |
101 |
937 |
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.
If you decide to write an article / use the enclosed data we would ask you to take into consideration the factors highlighted in this document so as to not mislead members of the public or official bodies, or misrepresent the relevance of the whole or any part of this disclosed material.
