Physical attacks in hospitals
Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FIN/25/003012/J
Version Date: 04/04/2025
The Performance Analysis Department have provided the following information.
Please can I ask the following in respect of 2023/24, 2022/23 and 2021/22.
1: How many patients reported suffering physical attacks while in hospitals in your force area over each of the last three years?
2: Please can you break down the figures, e.g. into assaults, indecent and sexual assaults.
|
Offence |
21/22 |
22/23 |
23/24 |
Total |
|
Assault a person thereby occasioning them actual bodily harm (recordable) |
2 |
|
|
2 |
|
Assault by beating (recordable) |
|
1 |
4 |
5 |
|
Assault occasioning actual bodily harm (Section 47) |
8 |
6 |
11 |
25 |
|
Cause / incite a girl 13 to 15 to engage in sexual activity - no penetration - offender under 18 (recordable) |
|
|
1 |
1 |
|
Common assault (recordable) |
5 |
|
|
5 |
|
Common assault (S39) and assault without injury (Class 105A) |
8 |
11 |
11 |
30 |
|
Non-fatal strangulation and suffocation - Serious Crime Act 2015 s75 |
|
|
1 |
1 |
|
Rape of a Female aged 16 or over (Sec 1 SOA 2003) |
3 |
1 |
1 |
5 |
|
Section 18 - grievous bodily harm with intent (recordable) |
|
|
1 |
1 |
|
Sexual assault of a female 13 or over by penetration (S2, SOA 2003) |
|
|
2 |
2 |
|
Sexual assault of a female child under 13 (S3, SOA 2003) |
1 |
|
|
1 |
|
Sexual assault on a female (recordable) |
3 |
2 |
4 |
9 |
|
Sexual assault on a male (recordable) |
4 |
|
|
4 |
|
Sexual assault on a male aged 13 or over (Sec 3, SOA 2003) |
|
2 |
2 |
4 |
|
Total |
34 |
23 |
38 |
95 |
3: How many arrests were made and charges brought against the assailants relating to these incidents?
|
21/22 |
22/23 |
23/24 |
Total |
|
|
Total Arrests |
2 |
2 |
7 |
11 |
|
Outcome |
21/22 |
22/23 |
23/24 |
Total |
|
1: Charged |
0 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
|
1: Summonsed/postal requisition |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |