Domestic Violence Protection Notices - 530/20

Date Responded 29 April 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:

How many Domestic Violence Protection Notices (DVPNs) were issued per year in: 2016; 2017; 2018; 2019; 2020 (to date);
How many DVPNs were breached per year in: 2016; 2017; 2018; 2019; 2020 (to date);
How many Domestic Violence Protection Orders (DVPOs) were granted per year in: 2016; 2017; 2018; 2019; 2020 (to date);
How many DVPOs were breached per year in: 2016; 2017; 2018; 2019; 2020 (to date).

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 with the below noted.

- One individual may breach a DVPN or DVPO multiple times

- DVPOs are all based on a DVPN

- "Cancelled" DVPNs have been included within this, as they should have been issued prior to cancellation

- This information is held in a monthly format; Its provided up to and including 31/03/2020.

2019	DVPN	Issued	263
		Breached	13
	DVPO	Issued	212
		Breached	53

2020	DVPN	Issued	88
		Breached	5
	DVPO	Issued	76
		Breached	18

With regards to the years 2016/17/18 the below exemption is relevant.

As the information you have requested at these parts 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.

This information has been asked for previously, released and published on the Northumbria Police Disclosure Log. FOI 338/19 refers

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.