Violence against person (FOI Ref:1817/26)

Request

For 2023, 2024, and 2025 in West Midlands, how many violence against the person crimes were recorded with the victim listing sex as 'prefer not to say'? How many transgender?

We clarified with you on 6/8/2026 and you responded the same day. Your amended request reads: 

For 2023, 2024, and 2025 in West Midlands, how many violence against the person crimes were recorded with the victim listing sex as 'prefer not to say'? How many transgender? 

I am seeking one figure for 2023, one for 2024 and one for 2025, 

I would like you to include any offences you register as violence against the person offences, but if this isn't a category you use, please include homicide, violence with injury, violence without injury, sex offences, rape, stalking and harassment 

Response

Please find enclosed our response.

Violence against the person crimes:

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. Consequently, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are considered 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 considered 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.