School knife crime
Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FIN/23/1113
Version Date: 17/10/2023
The Performance & Analysis Department have provided the following information.
We have searched Niche crime for any occurrences with a knife crime flag attached where the occurrence address is recorded as a school.
We have reviewed each occurrence to identify the type of knife if recorded.
Please provide the following, under the Freedom of Information Act, for the past 5 calendar years, from 2018 to the present and where the location is a school:
1) The number of knife crime offences split by:
a) offence type
b) knife type
c) what the knife was used for (ie stabbing, threatening)
|
Weapon use |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
|
Possession |
3 |
8 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
|
Threat/Attempt |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
|
Threatened |
5 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
|
Total |
8 |
9 |
2 |
3 |
3 |
2 |
|
Type of knife |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
|
Blade |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Butterfly Knife |
0 |
0 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
Flick Knife |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
Imitation |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Kitchen Knife |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
Large Knife |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Letter Knife |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Not stated |
2 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
3 |
0 |
|
Pen Knife |
0 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Stanley Knife |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Total |
8 |
9 |
2 |
3 |
3 |
2 |
d) Victim and suspect demographics, including but not limited to age, gender, ethnicity and relationship between victim and suspect
Please Note:
- Not all offences have a victim (i.e. possession of weapons)
- A victim or a suspect may not be identified
- The information relates to Suspects and not necessarily offenders
|
Victim Gender |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
|
Female |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
|
Male |
3 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
|
Total |
3 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
|
Victim Age |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
|
9 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
10 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
11 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
12 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
14 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
15 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
|
Total |
3 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
|
Victim Ethnicity |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
|
White - North European |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Not recorded / Unknown |
2 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
|
Total |
3 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
|
Suspect Gender |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
|
Female |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
|
Male |
5 |
8 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
|
Total |
6 |
8 |
1 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
|
Suspect Age |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
|
8 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
9 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
|
10 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
11 |
0 |
3 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
12 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
13 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
14 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
|
15 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
|
17 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Total |
6 |
8 |
1 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
|
Suspect Ethnicity |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
|
Asian |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
|
White - North European |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
|
Not recorded / Unknown |
6 |
7 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
1 |
|
Total |
6 |
8 |
1 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
The table below shows relationships for offences where both a victim and a suspect are identified
|
Relationship |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
|
Complete stranger |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Educational relationship |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
|
Friend/acquaintance/colleague |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
|
Other relationship (misc) |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
Total |
2 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
Dorset Police would always work with schools, parents / guardians and look to provide education as opposed to necessarily immediately moving to a criminal outcome in situations where a knife / weapon was located in a school in the possession of a young person.