National Health Service Offences

Please supply: For the year 2008/2009, how many recorded victims, In National Health Service Venues(For example Hospitals, GP Surgeries, health centres, clinics);

For offences in the categories below;

1) Violence against the person - with injury (such as: battery, actual bodily harm, grievous bodily harm, wounding, homicide)

2) Violence against the person - without injury (such as: common assault, harassment)

3) Public order offences (such as: drunk and disorderly, affray, disorder, using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour, causing fear of or provoking violence / causing harassment, alarm or distress)

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

Recorded victims in National Health Service Venues (2008 - 2009)

Please Note:  Statistics are reliant upon the in putter recording a location subtype of 'surgery/health centre', 'hospital', 'other (medical)', 'opticians', 'dental surgery', 'hospice', 'mental health unit', 'pharmacy' or 'nursing home'. NHS institutions are not identifiable from non-NHS institutions.

Statistics are based on the assumption that one recorded crime is one recorded victim, even for public order offences which may be against the state.

'No crimes' have been removed from the statistics.

You have cited 'common assault' in the 'without injury' category but the Force records this combined with battery and therefore it has been included in the 'with injury category'.

You have also cited 'drunk and disorderly' in the 'public order' category but this is a non-notifiable offence and is part of the Criminal Justice Act (S.91) not Public Order Act.