Domestic Abuse Crimes and Arrests (230A/20)
Request
How many reports of domestic abuse did the force receive in April 2020?
How many domestic abuse arrests did the force make in April 2020?
How many reports of domestic abuse did the force receive in March 2020?
How many domestic abuse arrests did the force make in March 2020?
How many reports of domestic abuse did the force receive in February 2020?
How many domestic abuse arrests did the force make in February 2020?
How many reports of domestic abuse did the force receive in January 2020?
How many domestic abuse arrests did the force make in January 2020?
Please could you provide the same information for January, February, March and April 2019 and also January, February, March and April 2018?
Response
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.
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.