Incidents at a Co-op Store (21503/19)
Request
In 2017 (full year), 2018 (full year) and 2019 (to September):
(a) how many incidents at a Co-op* store have been reported to West Midlands Police?;
(b) how many times have West Midlands Police attended in person to an incident reported to them at a Co-op* store?; and
(c) how many people have been charged to court having committed an offence at a Co-op* store?
* Co-op, Coop, Co-op Group, Co-operative, Co-operative Group
Response
Please find attached our response, and note that the data for questions (a) and (b) have been extracted from our incidents database and the data for (c) has been extracted from our crimes database. Our crimes and incidents database are separate recording systems and record different information, therefore, the data provided for (a) and (b) will not correlate with the data provided for (c).
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.