Newcastle Airport Arrests - 933/21

Date Responded 15 July 2022

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 request information about the following airports: Newcastle International Airport

I would like to request the Number of arrests and a list of offences
For both of these, I would like the data broken down for 2019, 2020 and 2021, if possible.

In Response:

I am able to disclose the located information to you as follows.

2019 - As the information you have requested for this year 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 is published on the Northumbria Police Disclosure Log. FOI 458/20 refers and the link to the Log is provided below.

I respond as follows with data for the 2020 and 2021 time periods:

Offence For Which There Was An Arrest	2020	2021
Assault occasioning actual bodily harm (malicious wounding)	1	-
Assault or assault by beating on a constable	1	-
Being guilty in any public place, while drunk, of disorderly behaviour	1	-
Breach a sexual risk order / risk of sexual harm order etc. or fail to comply with requirement under Sec 122 C (4) in relation to a sexual risk order	-	1
Breach of a Restraining Order	-	1
Causing intentional harassment, alarm or distress	1	-
Enter aircraft when drunk / be drunk in aircraft	-	1
Harassment, alarm or distress	-	1
Having an article with a blade or point in a public place	-	1
Offence in relation to the unlawful importation of a drug controlled under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 Class A	-	2
Offence in relation to the unlawful importation of a drug controlled under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 Other Class*	-	1
Reinstated wef 26.01.09 / Offence in relation to the unlawful IMPORTATION of a drug controlled under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 Class B	-	1
Stealing not classified elsewhere	1	-
Total	5	9

Disclaimer

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