Racially Motivated Crimes at Villa Park (626A/22)

13 July 2022 | Incident and Crime Statistics

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Response

Please find our response below.

1. How many arrests have been made relating to racially motivated crimes at Villa Park between June 2021 and May 2022? 

1

2. How many arrests were made June 2020 to May 2021?

0

3. How many arrests were made June 2019 to May 2020? 

No specific information held

4. Of these arrests, how many were found to be members or had links to a proscribed far-right groups such as National Front, Britain First etc.? 

5. If you have the data, how many of the arrests made between June 2021 and May 2022 involved individuals who wore pin badges, used flags, or were wearing any symbol relating to proscribed far-right groups? 

In relation to questions 4 and 5, West Midlands Police will neither confirm nor deny the existence of any relevant data by virtue of Section 40(5) – Personal information.

This exemption and explanatory notes are shown here:

https://www.app.college.police.uk/app-content/information-management/freedom-of-information/#freedom-of-information-exemptions

Section 40(5) is an absolute and class-based exemption if to confirm or deny that the information exists would breach the third party’s data protection rights. In this case, to confirm or deny the existence of personal information would not constitute fair processing of the data. As this exemption is class based I am not required to identify the harm in disclosure and in this instance I believe that the right to privacy outweighs any public interest in release.

No inference can be taken from this refusal that the information you have requested does or does not exist.

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.

If you decide to write an article / use the enclosed data we would ask you to take into consideration the factors highlighted in this document so as to not mislead members of the public or official bodies, or misrepresent the relevance of the whole or any part of this disclosed material.

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