Officers attendance at college campus (3950/20)
Request
In an excel spreadsheet and broken down by incident, can you tell me how often and for what reason you attended each FE college campus in your region in each of the last three years?
How many of these incidents relate to weapons being brought on campus?
Response
Please find attached our 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. 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 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.
It is important to note that this data is taken from our incident database. Please note that the incident may not necessarily have occurred on the premises, rather the premises may be the nearest identifiable landmark and so has been entered into the incident report. It may also be the case that the incident may have happened where College is within the name i.e. – College Road, but didn’t actually occur within a College premises.
Therefore we have provided the following
Table 1 – Where a resource (Officer) has arrived: broken down by final classification, Neighbourhood Policing Unit and year
Table 2 – Table 2: Where a resource (Officer) has arrived and contains a weapon qualifier: broken down by final classification, Neighbourhood Policing Unit and year
Because these are incidents, they do not have a crime category.