RTC's and Crimes in Car Parks - 404/20

Date Responded 18 March 2020

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:

Under the freedom of information act, I would like to know the following. Please break down the figures by year, for the past five years (March 2015 to March 2020).

  1. How many car accidents / damages to vehicles in car parks in your area have there been?
  2. How many thefts have been reported in car parks in your area?
  3. How many 'other' crimes crimes such as assaults (human) have been reported in your area in car parks in your area?”

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.

To note the figures for each year are from March to February, this being a full year.  Figures for March 2020 were not available at the time of the submission of your request, this being 3rd March 2020 so we have not been able to provide.

RTCs are not defined as crimes.  Figures at point 1 have therefore been provided separately as different search criteria had to be used to extract.

Criminal damage to a vehicle would be defined as a crime.

Should an RTC have been defined as a crime, it has been removed from the RTC figures.

1  Damage – Crime

2015/16 – 528

2016/17 – 485

2017/18 – 476

2018/19 – 485

2019/20 – 453

RTC

2015/16 – 616

2016/17 – 576

2017/18 – 557

2018/19 – 564

2019/20 – 549

2  2015/16 – 630

2016/17 – 739

2017/18 – 808

2018/19 – 897

2019/20 – 837

3  2015/16 – 552

2016/17 – 762

2017/18 – 924

2018/19 – 1020

2019/20 – 1063

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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