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Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FIN/24/002403/R
Version Date: 08/10/2024
The Performance Analysis Department have provided the following information.
Searches were completed on Niche for all knife crimes in the financial years requested and filtered on the suspect gender and age.
Please note that the number of women suspects has been counted in the totals, not the number of distinct crime occurrences.
Financial Year |
Q1 - Total Instances of knife possession offences by women |
Q2 - Total Instances of knife possession offences by women under the age of 18 |
Q3 - Youngest Offender |
21/22 |
81 |
3 |
16 |
22/23 |
54 |
8 |
11 |
23/24 |
78 |
13 |
16 |
24/25 (up to 10/09/2024) |
20 |
2 |
14 |
Dorset Police are working in partnership with the Community Safety Partnership who have a duty to analyse and understand serious youth violence, which includes knife violence. Collaboratively, we have undertaken a serious violence needs assessment to understand where our focus needs to be and what interventions we can realistically undertake to tackle and reduce violence.
One mechanism is a joint task and finish group. They will look at the data from all agencies regarding this crime type, with a focus on victims and suspects. Where we identify young persons, the aim is to intervene early and engage with them and their parents/carers to highlight the dangers of knife crime, so they think twice and decide not to carry or use a weapon. We further support community based initiatives, such as ‘CAM’ Changes are made and recently there was conurbation wide engagement events highlighting the dangers of knife crime.