Dangerous dogs (887A/23)
Request
1 – Provide all recorded crimes under HOCR 008/21 – Owner or person in charge allowing dog to be dangerously out of control injuring any person or assistance dog. Other forces have said their system shows these offences began recording at the end of 2018, so to provide full yearly data the refinement would be to provide the last 4 years from 01/01/2019 to 31/12/2022.
2 – Provide all recorded outcomes for these crimes.
Response
1 – Provide all recorded crimes under HOCR 008/21 – Owner or person in charge allowing dog to be dangerously out of control injuring any person or assistance dog. Other forces have said their system shows these offences began recording at the end of 2018, so to provide full yearly data the refinement would be to provide the last 4 years from 01/01/2019 to 31/12/2022.
| Year | Number |
| 2019 | 755 |
| 2020 | 762 |
| 2021 | 984 |
| 2022 | 1121 |
| Total | 3622 |
2 – Provide all recorded outcomes for these crimes
| Outcome Description | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | Total |
| Caution – Adult (Inc Conditional Caution) | 8 | 13 | 15 | 11 | 47 |
| Charge or Summons | 19 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 36 |
| COMMUNITY RESOLUTION | 128 | 141 | 128 | 140 | 537 |
| Evidential Difficulties – Victim Based – Named suspect not identified | 21 | 6 | 10 | 21 | 58 |
| Formal action against the offender is not in the public interest (Police) | 11 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 21 |
| Further action will be taken by another body | 1 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 18 |
| Investigation Complete: No suspect identified | 301 | 242 | 352 | 277 | 1172 |
| NAME SUSPECT IDENTIFIED, INVESTIGATION NOT IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST, POLICE DECISION |
2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Named Suspect identified: evidential difficulties prevent further action (no victim support) |
182 | 298 | 435 | 573 | 1488 |
| Named Suspect identified: evidential difficulties prevent further action (victim support) |
43 | 25 | 25 | 43 | 136 |
| NAMED SUSPECT IDENTIFIED: VICTIM SUPPORTS POLICE ACTION BUT EVIDENTIAL DIFFICULTIES PREVENT FURTHER ACTION |
13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 |
| OTHER AGENCY TAKES PRIMACY | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| POSTAL CHARGE | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE TO CHARGE, BUT POLICE DECIDED NOT IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST TO PROSECUTE | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Suspect Identified, but not in the public interest for police to investigate |
13 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 22 |
| The Offender has Died (all offences) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Not recorded | 1 | 10 | 7 | 39 | 57 |
| Total | 755 | 762 | 984 | 1121 | 3622 |
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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