Dangerous dogs (1374A/23)
Request
How many reports of crime violating the Dangerous Dogs Act were reported in the past four calendar years (2019-2022)?
How many of these resulted in a charge?
How many resulted in successful prosecution?
Please break down by calendar year.
Response
Please find enclosed our response.
How many reports of crime violating the Dangerous Dogs Act were reported in the past four calendar years (2019-2022)?
| 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | Grand Total | |
| Reports | 652 | 761 | 969 | 1109 | 1002 | 4493 |
How many of these resulted in a charge?
| 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | Grand Total | |
| Charge or Summons | 23 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 45 |
How many resulted in successful prosecution?
The Police charge or report defendants to His Majesties Court Services. This is a separate organisation and they are responsible for the prosecutions of said defendants. West Midlands Police do not hold this information in a centrally located format.
Please note that these data should be interpreted with caution. Comparing numbers of incidents/crimes can be misleading and does not necessarily indicate the likelihood of someone being a victim of crime. In addition, the number of incidents/crimes recorded in an area over a period of time can be influenced by a number of factors. Consequently, statistics on incidents/crimes for one period may not necessarily be a good indicator of future incidents in that area.
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 considered 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 considered 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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