Bladed article or offensive weapon - arrests (FOI ref: 1729A/25)
Request
For the purpose of this request, the time frames to be considered are (i.e. financial years):
April 2020 – April 2021
April 2021 – April 2022
April 2022 – April 2023
April 2023 – April 2024
April 2024 – April 2025
Broken down by the above timeframes, how many people aged 65 and over have been arrested on possession of a bladed article or offensive weapon?
Of those number, please can you detail how many of these arrests were of males and how many were females?
Response
1. Broken down by the above timeframes, how many people aged 65 and over have been arrested on possession of a bladed article or offensive weapon?
|
Performance Year |
Possession of Knife/Bladed Article |
Possession of Offensive Weapon |
Total |
|
April 2020 to March 2021 |
9 |
5 |
14 |
|
April 2021 to March 2022 |
7 |
4 |
11 |
|
April 2022 to March 2023 |
6 |
7 |
13 |
|
April 2023 to March 2024 |
10 |
13 |
23 |
|
April 2024 to March 2025 |
19 |
21 |
40 |
|
Total |
51 |
50 |
101 |
2. Of those number, please can you detail how many of these arrests were of males and how many were females?
|
Suspect Gender and Performance Year |
Possession of Knife/Bladed Article |
Possession of Offensive Weapon |
Total |
|
Female arrests |
|
|
|
|
April 2020 to March 2021 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
|
April 2021 to March 2022 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
|
April 2022 to March 2023 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
April 2023 to March 2024 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
|
April 2024 to March 2025 |
2 |
2 |
4 |
|
Female Total |
4 |
5 |
9 |
|
Male arrests |
|
|
|
|
April 2020 to March 2021 |
8 |
5 |
13 |
|
April 2021 to March 2022 |
7 |
3 |
10 |
|
April 2022 to March 2023 |
5 |
6 |
11 |
|
April 2023 to March 2024 |
9 |
11 |
20 |
|
April 2024 to March 2025 |
17 |
19 |
36 |
|
Male Total |
46 |
44 |
90 |
|
Other/Unknown arrests |
|
|
|
|
April 2022 to March 2023 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
|
Other/Unknown Total |
1 |
1 |
2 |
|
Total |
51 |
50 |
101 |
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