Domestic Homicides (1166A/21)
Request
(1) How many women have been killed by a partner, spouse, or relative? Could this information be given in quarters for the following years.
2017-2018
2018-2019
2019-2020
2020-2021
Where possible can you break this down by ethnic group and age? For example, White, Black, Pakistani, Bangladeshi etc.
(2) How many men have been killed by a partner, spouse or relative? Could this information be given in quarters for the following years.
2017-2018
2018-2019
2019-2020
2020-2021
Where possible can you break this down by ethnic group and age? For example, White, Black, Pakistani, Bangladeshi etc.
(3) From March 2020 to date in 2021 are you able to breakdown the domestic killings by quarters. Can you further breakdown into gender, age, and ethnicity.
(4) How many cases during March 2020 and to date in 2021 still have active investigations?
(5) How many cases during the years from 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 have individuals been charged or progressed to criminal court. What were the outcome if it went to criminal court?
Response
Please find attached (1166A_21_attachment.pdf). Data are correct as at 17 August 2021.
Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from a number of data sources used by forces for police purposes. The detail collected to respond specifically to your request is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when interpreting those data.
The figures provided therefore are our best interpretation of relevance of data to your request, but you should be aware that the collation of figures for ad hoc requests may have limitations and this should be taken into account when those data are used.
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