Assaults in Primark stores

Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request reference: 23/0710

Version date: 09/06/2023

The Performance Analysis Department have provided the following information:

1) Please state for the financial years a) 2021/22 and b) 2022/23 how many of the following crimes were alleged to have occurred and were recorded by your force as having happened in Primark

Assault offences to include all assault offences
5D - Assault with intent to cause serious harm
8N - Assault with injury
8P - Racially or religiously aggravated assault with injury
105A - Assault without injury
105B - Racially or religiously aggravated assault without injury
2) Please specify how many of the incidents recorded in question 1 were a) customers assaulting Primark staff as distinct from b) assaults that occurred between customers without any staff members falling victim.

NOTE: I am only interested in assaults which occurred within Primark store premises. Please exclude incidents where the crime happened "down the road from" or "outside" Primark, etc.

Offence description	Count
Assault with Injury	2
Assault without Injury	6

In addition, please provide me with a verbatim copy of the "investigation summary field" and/or the modus operandi (MO) for the ten most recent cases.

 

Occurrence Summary

ASB - homophic comments

Aggressive customer

Assault on security guard

ABH. S has pulled victim's hair causing her to fall down on the floor then punched her several times in the face.

Assault by security guard

Assault by security guard

Assaulted by group of youths

Suspicious incident