Acid Attacks (223A/20)
Request
I would like to receive freedom of information request on statistics of acid attacks committed in West-midlands from 2010 to 2017 and 2017 to 2019.
Refinement:
In order to separate the acid attacks (corrosive substances) from the results = a keyword search of the MO notes field for the terms ‘acid’ and ‘corrosive’.
Response
Please find our response below.
Criteria used: The number of offences recorded from 2010 – 2019 where the Weapons List field = ‘ACID – BOILING WATER – CIGARETTE-BURNING’ and the Weapons Use field = ‘USED, CAUSING INJURY’, with an additional search for the terms ‘acid’ and/or ‘corrosive’ within the MO notes field.
| Year | Count |
| 2010 | 4 |
| 2014 | 2 |
| 2015 | 2 |
| 2018 | 1 |
| Grand Total | 9 |
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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