Violence Against the Person Crimes June 2022-24

Request

1. Please provide the monthly figure for Violence Against the Person crimes that took place in schools and nurseries/kindergartens between June 2022 and June 2024, with a separate figure for schools and nurseries if possible.

2. Referring to Violence Against the Person crimes that took place in schools and nurseries/kindergartens in June 2024 only, in what number of cases was CCTV footage reviewed as part of the investigation? Please also state the number of times CCTV was not available or existent to corroborate a reported incident, if that information is recorded.

I understand that this may mean manually examining crime records to see if CCTV was reviewed. If this is the case, please examine the 33 most recent records, and then state the amount that reviewed CCTV.

3. Please provide the monthly figure for Violence Against the Person crimes that took place in care homes between June 2022 and June 2024.

4. Referring to Violence Against the Person crimes that took place in care homes in June 2024 only, in what number of cases was CCTV footage reviewed as part of the investigation? Please also state the number of times CCTV was not available or existent to corroborate a reported incident, if that information is recorded.

I understand that this may mean manually examining crime records to see if CCTV was reviewed. If this is the case, please examine the 33 most recent records, and then state the amount that reviewed CCTV.

5. Please provide the monthly figure for Violence Against the Person crimes that took place in hospitals between June 2022 and June 2024.

6. Referring to Violence Against the Person crimes that took place in hospitals in June 2024 only, in what number of cases was CCTV footage reviewed as part of the investigation? Please also state the number of times CCTV was not available or existent to corroborate a reported incident, if that information is recorded.

I understand that this may mean manually examining crime records to see if CCTV was reviewed. If this is the case, please examine the 33 most recent records, and then state the amount that reviewed CCTV.

Response

I approached our Performance Review Unit for assistance with your request. An analyst within this unit has conducted a search of our Crime Management System – Connect which records complaints or allegations of those matters, which the Home Office specify should be recorded as ‘crimes’. All our systems are designed and used first and foremost for Policing Purposes and have limited search capability. They provided me with the enclosed spreadsheet in response and the following explanation regarding their search criteria:

For question 1, 3 and 5:

We have provided a count of offences recorded CONNECT crime where the offence recorded is “VIOLENCE AGAINST THE PERSON” and the premises type and MO desc are as per the below filters.

Q1

Q3 

Q5 

Please note –

• Data from CONNECT crime only. This is a live recording system and may be subject to change
• Date parameter used between incident created date 01-JUN-2022 and 31-JUN-2024

For questions 2, 4 and 6, to avoid triggering Section 12, we have manually reviewed the most 33 records provided from the filters above.

Q2. 2

Q4. 5

Q6. 5

Please note, every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that data has been extracted from data sources used by this force for police purposes. The detail collected to respond specifically to your request is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording systems and information assets.

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/data for any requests may have limitations, and this should be taken into account when those data are used

Police forces do not use generic systems or identical procedures for capturing the data. For these reasons this response to your questions should not be used for comparison purposes with responses you may receive from other police forces.