Knife crime in hospitals
Freedom of Information Act request number: 2022-088
Version date: 03/02/2022
The Performance & Analysis Department have provided the following information:
We have searched the Niche Crime Database for all offences with the occurrence address of a hospital that had either knife/blade/sharp instrument recorded as a weapon used or had any of the keywords *knife* *blade* *sharp instrument* *machete* recorded in the occurrence summary.
Please provide me with data relating to all knife crime which have occurred in hospitals, that this police force has been called to, from the beginning of 2011 to the end of 2020
Please break this information down by year and type of crime associated with the knife crime (e.g. homicide, violence with injury, violence without injury etc.).
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Offence |
2011 |
2013 |
2014 |
2015 |
2016 |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
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ABH on a Constable |
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1 |
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ABH on an Emergency worker |
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1 |
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Assault a constable in the execution of his / her duty |
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1 |
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Assault by beating of an emergency worker |
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1 |
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Assault occasioning actual bodily harm |
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1 |
1 |
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Common assault |
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1 |
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Common assault of an emergency worker |
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1 |
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Possess knife blade / sharp pointed article in a public |
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1 |
1 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
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Possession Of Blade Or Point |
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1 |
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1 |
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Public Fear, Alarm Or Distress |
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1 |
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Threats to kill |
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1 |
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Use threatening / abusive words / behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress |
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1 |
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Wounding Or Endangering Life |
1 |
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Total |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
5 |
7 |
2 |