School Racist Incidents

  • Reference Number: 1944
  • Date released: 10 July 2009

Request

The number of times police from your force have been called in to schools to deal with racist incidents. More specifically, I am requesting the following:

  1. The total number of incidents reported to police by schools involving violent, threatening  or abusive behaviour.  Of these,
  2. The number of times that an officer went in to the school following the report
  3. The number of times that a student was arrested as a result of the incident
  4. The number of times a student was charged as a result of the incident

Response

In accordance with section 1 (1) (b) of the Act our response is provided below;

Racist incidents at schools

Year Number of racist incidents involving violent, threatening or abusive behaviour at schools Number attended by police Number where student(s) arrested Number where student(s) charged / summonsed Number where student(s) cautioned / reprimanded
06/07 7 5 0 1 0  
07/08 5 5 0 0 1  
08/09 11 6 2 1 3  
09/10 0 0 0 0 0  

Please note: As you did not state any time frame in your original request, we have collated data as far back as is possible.

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