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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:

I would like information on the following, from January 1, 2019, to December 31, 2019, and then the same information for the same calendar year of 2020.

1. How many reports of domestic abuse, both resulting in injury and not resulting in injury, have you received? Please could this be broken down month-by-month, as well as a total for both years?

2. How many domestic abuse-related arrests have been made? Please could this be broken down month-by-month, as well as a total for both years?

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.

1.

Year	2019			2020
Month	F	M	U	F	M	U
Jan	2523	659	4	2408	663	0
Feb	2159	612	0	2280	649	2
Mar	2382	677	1	2470	669	2
Apr	2382	641	0	2497	651	3
May	2523	673	3	2674	701	2
Jun	2364	672	3	2670	782	4
Jul	2595	721	3	2961	886	2
Aug	2690	699	2	2850	829	6
Sep	2340	694	2	2466	719	5
Oct	2321	597	1	2397	680	5
Nov	2321	682	0	2321	614	2
Dec	2609	726	3	2456	721	5
Total	29209	8053	22	30450	8564	38

 

 

2.

Month	2019	2020
Jan	745	699
Feb	676	646
Mar	743	594
Apr	695	676
May	666	769
Jun	665	726
Jul	690	772
Aug	689	772
Sep	586	684
Oct	593	683
Nov	647	669
Dec	745	730
Total	8140	8420

 

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.