Knife Crime with Specific Brands of Knife

Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FIN/25/002827/G

 Version Date: 21/02/2025

Q1: For the years 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 how many attempted murder or murder cases have been logged by your force where a bladed article purchased from ‘DNA Leisure’ was recorded as an element of the case?

Q2: For the years 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 how many attempted murder or murder cases have been logged by your force where a bladed article manufactured by ‘Sporting Wholesale’ was recorded as an element of the case?

Q3: For the years 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 how many attempted murder or murder cases have been logged by your force where a bladed article belonging to the knife brand Anglo Arms was recorded as an element of the case?

The Performance Analysis Department have provided the following information.

Searches were completed on Niche within the occurrence entry log for all murder/attempted murder crimes for the keywords provided. Another search was then completed for knife crime flagged crimes with the property make containing the keywords requested.  

These searches resulted a nil return.

Please note data is only available from 21/05/2015 when Niche was introduced to the Force.