ASB – Birmingham City Centre (520A/24)
Request
I would like to request the following information regarding Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB) related offences that have occurred in Birmingham City Centre over the past three years:
- The total number of ASB related offences recorded in Birmingham City Centre.
- A breakdown of the above total by postcode within Birmingham City Centre.
- The types of ASB offences recorded, categorised by offence type (e.g., vandalism, harassment, noise complaints, etc.).
- The monthly breakdown of ASB offences over the past three years.
- The outcome of each reported ASB offence (e.g., arrest made, warning issued, caution given, case closed without further action, etc.).
- The age range of suspects involved in ASB offences.
- The age range of victims affected by ASB offences.
Response
Please see attached but note – In order to service this request, it was necessary for our analysts to source data from both our Incident system and our Crime system. Unfortunately however, due to the search limitations of these systems, you will see that it was not possible to provide all the requested information.
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.