FOI 10329-25 Anti-social behaviour

Request to Northamptonshire Police:

• How many incidents of anti-social behaviour were reported to your force in the past four calendar years: 2024, 2023, 2022 and 2021?
• Please break down the numbers of incidents reported during working hours - and out of hours.
• For each of those four years, what proportion of the calls led to a police officer visiting the scene of the incident.
• Please break down the numbers for incidents reported during working hours - and out of hours.
• For each of those four years, what was the average length of time it took a police officer to attend the scene of the incident?
• Please break down the numbers of incidents reported during working hours - and out of hours.
• What hours, on which days of the week, is your Out Of Hours anti-social behaviour reporting hotline currently answered by a human.
• How long, on average, does it take for calls to your Out Of Hours anti-social behaviour hotline to be answered by a human?

Clarification:

Out Of Ours is anything after 7pm and before 8am, Monday to Friday - and across the weekend.

For further clarification, it's the Safer Neighbourhood Team info I'm after. If you can give the info you have, that would be great - with deployment targets too, if that's relevant.

Response:

Freedom Of Information legislation concerns recorded information within an organisation, public bodies are not obliged to create/work out data/percentages/proportions to facilitate such requests.

Searched for all incidents from 2021 to 2024 where the NSIR Closing Cat Theme Code is ASB.

Every call goes through a threat, risk and harm assessment which leads to that call being prioritised accordingly. Not all calls are emergencies and not all of these require an immediate police response. Sometimes the police are not the most appropriate service to help.

What is antisocial behaviour? | Northamptonshire Police Antisocial behaviour | Northamptonshire Police

Grade 1 (Emergency) – 15 minutes (urban) and 20 minutes (rural) Grade 2 (Priority) – 2h 15m

Northamptonshire Police does not have a specific Out of Hours Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB) Hotline. The Force Control Room is manned 24/7 for people to report an incident of any nature including ASB or they can log onto the northants.police.uk website to report online.

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