FOI 988-25 Officer injuries

Request:

How many police officers have reported injuries after being involved in incidents where police vehicles have been deliberately rammed?

If this information could be provided for each calendar year for 2022, 2023 and 2024

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.

Crime searched from 1st January 2022 to 31st December 2024 for all occurrences with a stats class description of:
Assault - S18 - GBH grievous bodily harm with intent to resist / prevent arrest
Assault - S18 - Wounding with intent to GBH on a Constable
Assault - S18 - Wounding with intent to resist/prevent arrest
Assault - S20 - GBH Grievous bodily harm/ Wounding without intent on a Constable
Assault - S47 - AOABH assault occasioning actual bodily harm on a Constable

Manual search carried out for the key words 'ram', rammed' ramming' in the Occurrence summary

Health & Safety system searched from 1st January 2022 to 31st December 2024 for all occurrences containing the key words 'ram' 'rammed' or 'ramming' in the Incident Report description

As with any keyword search, the search will only return exact matches within the Incident Description or Crime MO. This does not account for differences in terminology and/or spelling used. Keyword searches are problematic and in no way provide accurate results or figures. If the selected key words have not been mentioned in the MO the data will not be returned.

2022=2
2023=1
2024=1

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.

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