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. For the period of the last two financial years, 2020/21 and 2021/22 please supply the outcome data for disability hate crime which didn’t result in a charge
2. Has your police force employed any trained specialist disability liaison officers in each in each financial year, 2020/21 and 2021/22?
3. How many recorded disability hate crimes in each financial year (2020/21 and 2021/22) were reported to your police service by women victims?
4. What is the breakdown of disability hate crimes recorded by your police service during each financial year (2020/21 and 2021/22) on an urban-rural basis?
5. What is the breakdown of victims of disability hate crimes recorded by your police service during each financial year (2020/21 and 2021/22) along the following age brackets - under 18 years old, 18-24 years old, 25-34 years old, 35-44 years old, 45-54 years old, 55-64 years old, 65-74 years old, and over 75 years old?"
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.
|
Outcome |
2020/21 |
2021/22 |
|
Caution adult |
9 |
9 |
|
Community Resolution |
3 |
3 |
|
Diversionary, educational or intervention activity |
5 |
1 |
|
Evidential Difficulties |
114 |
108 |
|
Investigation Complete - No suspect identified |
114 |
154 |
|
Investigation not in public interest |
1 |
- |
|
Not in Public Interest (Police) |
4 |
14 |
|
Other agency action |
2 |
4 |
|
Penalty Notice |
1 |
- |
|
Prosecution time limit expired |
- |
1 |
|
Suspect too ill |
- |
2 |
|
Suspect under 10 years old |
5 |
6 |
|
Victim declines or is unable to identify suspect |
40 |
41 |
|
Victim does not support police action |
74 |
156 |
|
YOT Triage |
7 |
3 |
|
Unknown |
26 |
50 |
|
Total |
405 |
552 |
2. As the information you have requested at this point 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 that part of 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. A response to this query has already been provided to you in response to your earlier submission, FOI 783/22 refers. You may wish to refer back to that.
3. No information held. We do not hold the data on the gender of the person reporting the offence.
4.
|
Rural/Urban |
2020/21 |
2021/22 |
|
Rural |
7 |
18 |
|
Urban |
398 |
534 |
|
Total |
405 |
552 |
5.
|
Age Group |
2020/21 |
2021/22 |
|
Under 18 |
65 |
128 |
|
18 to 24 |
57 |
77 |
|
25 to 34 |
76 |
107 |
|
35 to 44 |
69 |
94 |
|
45 to 54 |
80 |
88 |
|
55 to 64 |
52 |
42 |
|
65 to 74 |
10 |
28 |
|
75 and over |
5 |
1 |
|
Unknown |
2 |
5 |
|
Total |
416 |
570 |
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.
