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:
In each year 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018:
1.How many 999 calls were flagged as mental health related?
2.How many 999 calls did you take overall?
3.How many 101 calls were flagged as mental health related?
4.How many 101 calls did you take overall?
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.
The below should be noted
The data has been taken from the incident tables using the final incident codes of QD4, QMH and SG1, for the number of mental health related calls.
The 101 calls have been taken from the incident table where the 'how reported' field is 'phone' and not '999'.
When an incident is attended and finalised it is given up to three final incident codes, if there are three codes that are more appropriate to the incident than the mental health element, the mental health code will not be recorded and these incidents will be omitted form the dataset. It is also possible that incidents have been included that were not people in a mental health crisis, rather they had conditions such as dementia, learning difficulties or ADHD.
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.
With the above in mind please see the below.
1.
Year 999
2014 3,235
2015 3,562
2016 3,499
2017 3,879
2018 4,178
Total 18,353
2.
Year Count
2014 188,761
2015 200,556
2016 205,429
2017 239,912
2018 235,502
Total 1,070,160
3.
Year 101
2014 4,003
2015 4,053
2016 3,580
2017 3,048
2018 3,480
Total 18,164
4.
Year 101
2014 623,999
2015 875,315
2016 759,097
2017 814,972
2018 743,975
Total 3,817,359
