Police Officer Assaults - 1050/19

Date Responded 06 September 2019

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:

The number of physical and verbal assaults targeted at your police officers in the past 10 years. Can you please record this information in calendar years.

In Response:

I can confirm that the information you have requested is held by Northumbria Police.

This data has been collated by searching for all recorded offences with a relevant HO code, where the 'assault police' flag was checked and where the method/means has been marked as 'ASP' (assault police).

We cannot split the total between physical and verbal assaults.

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

Year	No of offences
2009	667
2010	576
2011	583
2012	555
2013	641
2014	621
2015	681
2016	620
2017	678
2018	870
2019 (Jan - Jul)	493

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.

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