FOI 14789-25 Assaults on Officers

Request:

How many police officers were assaulted on duty in your police force area in the financial years

2024 – 2025 
2023 - 2024
2022 - 2023

Response:

Search for all officer (including PCSO) assaults for financial years 2022/23, 2023/24 and 2024/25.

Number of officers assaulted:
2024–2025 – 285
2023–2024 – 300
2022–2023 – 164

Please be aware that the above figures only reflect the number of individual officers who were assaulted each year, rather than the number of assaults on officers. Some officers were assaulted more than once in a year, and some assaults were against multiple officers.

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