Stalking Incidents and stalking protection orders(382A/22)
Request
1.How many incidents of stalking have been recorded in your force area in the last three reporting years for which figures are available? If you do not have three years of data, or if providing three years would take too long to collate, please provide the latest 12-month period for which figures are available. I don’t mind whether it’s financial years, calendar years, or other 12-month periods.
2.How many stalking protection orders have been issued by your police force in the last three reporting years for which figures are available? If you do not have three years of data, or if providing three years would take too long to collate, please provide the latest 12-month period for which figures are available. I don’t mind whether it’s financial years, calendar years, or other 12-month periods.
3.How many breaches of a stalking protection order have been recorded in your police force area in the last three reporting years for which figures are available? If you do not have three years of data, or if providing three years would take too long to collate, please provide the latest 12-month period for which figures are available. I don’t mind whether it’s financial years, calendar years, or other 12-month periods.
Response
Please note that these data should be interpreted with caution.
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.