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Rape - 658/18

Date Responded 03 October 2018

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:

For each of the time periods 2015/16, 2016/17 and 2017/18

  1. How many reports of sexual assault/rape have been investigated by your Police Force ? 
  2. How many resulted in no charges being brought against the suspected offenders in each of those years and, where possible, reasons why they were unsuccessful investigations?
  3. How many are committed by under 16s, those aged 16 to 24, those aged 25 to 39 and those aged 40 or older?
  4. How many of the crimes investigated have been committed by British and Irish nationals, how many have been committed by foreign nationals from other European countries, and how many by foreign nationals from outside Europe

                                                                                             

After we sought clarification you advised that both point 3 and point 4 relate to point 1.

 

 

In Response:

We have now had the opportunity to fully consider your request and I provide a response for your attention.

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  attached with the following caveats noted.

 

Data was collated through a search of all sexual offences created between 01/04/2015 and 31/03/2018 where the offence description contains the words 'assault' or 'rape.'

 

For question 2, we have provided the outcomes of all crimes which did not result in a charge/summons.

 

Question 3 and 4, in the attached summary, I have included a count of crimes broken down by the characteristics of the suspect. The suspect in the first set of tables is anyone given any disposal for the offence. The suspect in the second set of tables is anyone given a disposal other than NFA for the offence.  This is a count of all crimes according to the suspect's age grouping and nationality. The suspect is included their status is accused or wanted.  In cases of more than one suspect, the crime is included in each of the relevant brackets - for example a crime with one British suspect and one Australian suspect  would be counted in both the British and  Non-European category. Therefore summing these numbers may result in duplicate counting. Furthermore, as this is count of crimes, if the same suspect is named on multiple crimes, they will be counted more than once. The unknown categories are where there is a suspect named but we do not have their age or nationality.

 

If you decide to write an article / use the enclosed data we would expect that you to take into consideration the factors highlighted above so as not to mislead members of the public or official bodies or misrepresent the relevance of the whole or any part of this disclosed material.

FOI 658/18

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.

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