FOI 15093-25 - Failure to Appear Warrants

Request:

Q1. For each of the following years, please provide the number of Failure to Appear warrants received by the force.
a. 2020
b. 2021
c. 2022
d. 2023
e. 2024
f. 2025 to date

Q2. For each of the years listed above in Q.1, please state how many Failure to Appear warrants were:
a. Category A offences
b. Category B offences
c. Category C offences

Response:

Question 1:
2020 – 715
2021 – 924
2022 – 877
2023 – 864
2024 – 988
2025 – 663

Question 2:

2020:
Category A – 203
Category B – 477
Category C – 31

2021:
Category A – 323
Category B – 577
Category C – 20

2022:
Category A – 285
Category B – 555
Category C – 33

2023:
Category A – 275
Category B – 514
Category C – 67

2024:
Category A – 257
Category B – 591
Category C – 128

2025:
Category A – 186
Category B – 371
Category C – 103

We are aware of data quality issues with regard to the categorisation of warrants. Some warrants on our system do not have a category recorded. This means that the total number of Failure to Appear warrants recorded each year is greater than the sum of Category A, B and C warrants recorded.

The numerical data presented in this response is an un-audited snapshot of un-published data sourced from "live" systems and is subject to the interpretation of the original request by the individual extracting the data.

Northamptonshire Police systems are designed primarily for the management of individual cases and not for the production of statistical information for Freedom of Information responses.

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