FOI 990-25 Assaults on Police Officers
Request:
Between January 1st 2024 and December 31st 2024, how many assaults were there on Northamptonshire Police officers? If possible, please provide a breakdown of how many of these resulted in injuries to the officers (and the nature of those injuries if possible too).
As a comparison, between January 1st 2023 and December 31st 2023, how many assaults were there on Northamptonshire Police officers? If possible, please provide a breakdown of how many of these resulted in injuries to the officers (and the nature of those injuries if possible too).
As a comparison, between January 1st 2022 and December 31st 2022, how many assaults were there on Northamptonshire Police officers? If possible, please provide a breakdown of how many of these resulted in injuries to the officers (and the nature of those injuries if possible too).
As a comparison, between January 1st 2021 and December 31st 2021, how many assaults were there on Northamptonshire Police officers? If possible, please provide a breakdown of how many of these resulted in injuries to the officers (and the nature of those injuries if possible too).
Response:
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.
Assaults are recorded on the crime recording system and injury level and type on a health and safety system. These systems are not linked. To ascertain injuries and nature of the injury would require a manual read of each crime log which would take this request over cost. Of the 2,544 crime records, approximately 1,000 records in the health and safety system have a crime number linked and of those approximately 400 have specified an injury type in a searchable field.
Crime searched for all crimes where the Stats Classification is 'Assault - S47 - AOABH assault occasioning actual bodily harm on a Constable', 'Assault or assault by beating of a constable', 'Assault a constable in the execution of his / her duty', 'Assault Constable - Local Acts', 'Assault - S18 - Wounding with intent to GBH on a Constable', 'Assault - S20 - GBH Grievous bodily harm/ Wounding without intent on a Constable' between 2021 and 2024.
| 2021 | 602 |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 640 |
| 2023 | 679 |
| 2024 | 623 |
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.
Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that the data has been extracted from a number of data sources used by forces for police purposes. The detail collected to respond specifically to your request is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when interpreting the data.
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 for ad hoc requests may have limitations and this should be taken into account when the data is used.
If you decide to write an article / use the enclosed data we would ask you to take into consideration the factors highlighted in this document so as to not mislead members of the public or official bodies or misrepresent the relevance of the whole or any part of this disclosed material.
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.