FOI 16605-25 - Fireworks ASB and Animals
Request:
Q1. The number of anti-social behaviour incidents related to fireworks recorded by your force in the year 2024.
Q2. The number of incidents involving animals related to fireworks recorded by your force in the year 2024. This may include reports of injury, distress, or danger to animals caused by fireworks.
For both categories above, please provide a breakdown of incidents recorded specifically in October 2024 and November 2024.
Response:
Search for all incidents from 1st January 2024 to 31st December 2024 recorded as ASB and which mentions the word 'firework' in the incident description. Manual review carried out to identify the incidents involving animals.
| Date | Fireworks | Involving Animals |
|---|---|---|
| Total in 2024 | 105 | 13 |
| October | 32 | 3 |
| November | 33 | 9 |
Northamptonshire Police record ‘incidents’ from requests from members of the public requiring police assistance. These requests for assistance may be made via 101/999 or online submissions via the Northamptonshire Police website. Not all incident reports generate a crime report, and not all crime reports come from an incident report.
As with any keyword search, the search will only return exact matches within the incident description. 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 the data will not be returned. Vice versa, if the key words have been mentioned in an unrelated context, irrelevant data will be collected. Fireworks being mentioned in the incident description does not necessarily mean that fireworks have been set off.
The numerical data presented in this response is an unaudited snapshot of unpublished data sourced from "live" systems and is subject to the interpretation of the original request by the individual extracting the data.
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