FOI 8761-25 Violence against women and girls

Request to Northamptonshire Police:

I would like to submit a FOI request please to get the crime stats on violence against women and girls in Northampton.

It would be good to see the last 3-5 years to present if it's available? This should give a better idea of how it has increased/decreased/stayed the same

By it being broken down, I mean into the category of violence/crimes against women and girls. Is this collected? I want to know what the data/stats are for this in the area, rather than the overall national statistic

Response:

 Crime Searched between 01/01/2020 to 15/05/2025 for all Occurrences where a Victim of the Crime was Female and aged 10 years or older at the time of the offence with an occurrence address of ‘Northampton’.

In addition, the report includes the offences and criteria outlined below which have been identified as being ‘in scope’ for ‘VAWG’.

• All domestic violence / abuse
• Honour based abuse including Forced marriage and FGM - Double Check
• Non domestic Homicide; Rape; Other sexual offences; Violence with injury, Public HO Groups/codes:
  • Homicide (1; 4/1; 4/2)
  • Rape (19C; 19D; 19E; 19F, 19G, 19H 19J)
  • Other Sexual Offences (20A; 20B; 21; 22A; 22B; 23; 70; 71; 73; 88A; 88C; 88D; 88E)
  • Violence with Injury (2; 4/3; 4/7; 5D; 5E; 8N; 8P; 8S; 8T)
• Non domestic Exploitation of prostitution; Stalking and harassment; Public fear, alarm, distress; Modern slavery. HO Groups/Codes:
  • Exploitation of prostitution (24)
  • Stalking and Harassment (8L; 8M; 8Q; 8R; 8U)
  • Modern Slavery (106)
  • Public fear, alarm, distress (9A; 9B).

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.

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