School Incidents

1. For each month over the past two years, how many times did officers in your police authority attend a school to deal with an incident of reported violence?

2. For each month, how many of these attendances were made at the request of the school or a school staff member, how many at the request of a pupil, and how many at the request of a parent or carer?

3. For each month and for each of the above categories of request, how many attendances were as the result of responding to an emergency (999) call?

4. For each month, what proportion of all incidents where you attended involved a child as both the victim and perpetrator, an adult as victim and child as perpetrator, an adult as perpetrator and a child as victim, and an adult as both perpetrator and victim?

5. In what proportion of incidents in the categories mentioned in question 4) did medics also attend?

6. For incidents in the categories mentioned in question 4) how many were recorded as crimes?

7. For incidents in the categories mentioned in question 4) how many resulted in charges being brought?

8. In what proportion of incidents in the categories mentioned in question 4) was a weapon reported to be involved?

9. For incidents where a weapon was reported to be involved, what was the weapon?

10. How many incidents involving children involved a girl as the victim, a girl as the perpetrator, a boy as the victim, and a boy as the perpetrator?

11. How many of the reported incidents involving children also involved a report of sexual violence, and how many involved theft from the person?

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

There are a number questions within your request that we are unable to provide the answers to within the FOI cost limits. For example Question 2. To determine whether the original caller was a staff member, pupil, parent or carer would mean reading through approximately 2500 incidents for the two year period. Even if it took just a minute to read each one that equates to over 40 hours of work Of course that number of incidents would be filtered to those relating to acts of violence thereby reducing the total but at this moment that is an unknown figure. Further detailed manual research would also be needed for a number of other questions.

This it is estimated would exceed the appropriate limit. The appropriate limit is defined in the Data Protection and Freedom of Information (Fees and Appropriate Limit) Regulations 2004, which is covered by statutory Instrument Number 3244 of 2004. Furthermore, Section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 allows a public authority to refuse to respond to a request for information where the cost of compliance would exceed the appropriate limit as defined by the above mentioned regulations.