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Detentions of Adult Suspects - 912/23

Date Responded 10 July 2023

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 individual 15 months from January 2022 to March 2023 inclusive:

1. The total number of authorised detentions of adult suspects (aged 18 or over) for that month; and

2. The total number of authorised detentions of adult suspects (aged 18 or over) in which the need for an appropriate adult (under PACE Code C) was recorded in that month.

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.

1. 

Month/Year

Count

Jan-22

2,043

Feb-22

1,842

Mar-22

2,147

Apr-22

2,078

May-22

2,265

Jun-22

1,949

Jul-22

2,251

Aug-22

2,249

Sep-22

1,965

Oct-22

2,141

Nov-22

2,098

Dec-22

2,098

Jan-23

2,236

Feb-23

2,154

Mar-23

2,322

 

2.

Month/Year

Count

Jan-22

57

Feb-22

64

Mar-22

74

Apr-22

69

May-22

84

Jun-22

71

Jul-22

83

Aug-22

81

Sep-22

46

Oct-22

82

Nov-22

64

Dec-22

83

Jan-23

71

Feb-23

87

Mar-23

90

The below should be noted when viewing the figures:

  • The data has been taken from our Systems, and an inhouse spreadsheet kept to monitor the number of appropriate adults that have been required.
  • Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete.  However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from a number of data sources used by forces for police purposes.  The detail collected to respond specifically to your request is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system.  As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when interpreting those data.
  • The figures provided therefore are our best interpretation of relevance of data to your request, but you should be aware that the collation of figures for ad hoc requests may have limitations and this should be taken into account when those data are used.

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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