Domestic Abuse - 886/20

Date Responded 24 June 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:

I would like to have data on the number of domestic abuse/violence crimes your police force recorded for each of the following months.

January 2019, February 2019, March 2019, April 2019, May 2019

January 2020, February 2020, March 2020, April 2020, May 2020

broken down by local authority and month.

In Response:

Following receipt of your request, searches were conducted within 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.

Year / District	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May
2019	2,379	2,103	2,427	2,258	2,204
Gateshead	368	322	330	330	368
Newcastle	491	412	530	445	417
North Tyneside	372	335	371	318	339
Northumberland	376	294	348	349	344
South Tyneside	273	226	329	298	275
Sunderland	499	514	519	518	461
2020	2,073	1,927	1,930	1,860	2,026
Gateshead	276	279	276	245	271
Newcastle	427	408	397	332	361
North Tyneside	273	250	249	264	295
Northumberland	335	339	311	323	373
South Tyneside	289	240	279	228	254
Sunderland	473	411	418	468	472

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.