Crimes of Violence

  • Reference Number: 2376
  • Date released: 10 February 2010

Request

Can I suggest in order to try and assist you that we look at crimes of violence for a period of 1st January 2009 to 31st December 2009, the last complete year. Of those we will extract the reports that do contain a flag/reference to alcohol being a factor. Provided you accept that the results will not be totally accurate.

Response

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

Crimes of violence where alcohol was a factor (01/01/2009 - 31/12/2009)

Offender Substance Use* Recorded Crime
Affected by alcohol 4271
Affected by alcohol and drugs 117
Affected by drugs 41
Affected by solvents 2
Not affected by substances 1511
Not known / Non 7794
Total (Violent Crime) 13736

* Data reliant on this field being completed for each crime on the source system.

Please note

This data is reliant upon the offender substance use field being completed in the crime recording system, alcohol maybe referenced in other parts of the record but these will not be included because this would require a manual trawl through all the records.

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