Domestic Abuse - 1145/21

Date Responded 01 September 2021

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:

I'm writing to request data on the number of incidents of domestic abuse that were reported to your force during the specific time periods:

11 June - 11 July 2019
11 June - 11 July 2020
11 April - 11 May 2021
12 May - 11 June 2021

In Response:

In regards to the information for the period : 11 June - 11 July 2020. 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.

The information you have requested at this point has previously been supplied to you in our response to FOI 982/21.

With regards to the remainder I respond as below.

11 June – 11 July 2019 – 3189

11 April – 11 May 2021 – 3300

12 May – 11 June 2021 – 3610

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.