Firework incidents

Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FIN/25/3649

Version Date: 17/09/2025

The number of anti-social behaviour incidents related to fireworks recorded by your force in the year 2024.

The Performance & Analysis Department have provided the following information.

We created three queries to get results. We duplicated the Storm query used to answer a previous request (ASB disposal codes) and added in keyword searches into the inc. description field ‘firework’, ‘fire work’, and ‘rocket’

These are the results, with the data for Oct & Nov highlighted:

The number of incidents involving animals related to fireworks recorded by your force in the year 2024. This may include reports of injury, distress, or danger to animals caused by fireworks.

For both categories above, please provide a breakdown of incidents recorded specifically in October 2024 and November 2024.

We duplicated this query but removed the ASB disposals and added in the disposal for ANIMALS / WILDLIFE, this was a nil return.

So we then removed all disposal types from the filters, used the firework-related keywords in the first question in conjunction with the following keywords: ‘livestock’, ‘animal’, ‘dog’, ‘cat’, ‘cow’, ‘sheep’ and ‘wildlife’.

This returned the results below, however, please note that two of the three incidents also feature in the table above.