Assaults on emergency workers (FOI ref: 1760A/24)

Request

My request relates to arrests of suspects for assaulting an emergency worker.

Please note there are two parts to my request.

1.

Since 1 January 2020 to 1 November 2024, how many people has your force arrested following allegations that they have assaulted an emergency worker - offence code 00873?

The offence code for assaulting an emergency worker is as follows:

and relates to Section 67 of the Sentencing Act 2020.

Please provide a breakdown of the number of arrests per calendar year.

2.

For each arrest, please provide the following information:

(a) The gender (M/F) of the suspect

(b) The gender (M/F) of the victim

(c) The ethnicity of the suspect

(d) The ethnicity of the victim

(e) Whether the arrest led to a charge (Y/N)

Amended request

Please can you provide me with Crime data for the offence of 'Assault or assault by beating of an emergency worker' using Home Office offence code 08/73.

Response

Please find attached our response.

Please note that this data should be interpreted with caution. Comparing numbers of incidents/crimes can be misleading and does not necessarily indicate the likelihood of someone being a victim of crime. In addition, the number of incidents/crimes recorded in an area over a period of time can be influenced by a number of factors. Consequently, statistics on incidents/crimes for one period may not necessarily be a good indicator of future incidents in that area. 

Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that this 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 may be 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 data which has relevance 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 those data are 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. 

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