Possession of knife offences with outcomes (1702A/23)

28 November 2023 | Incident and Crime Statistics

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Response

Please find enclosed our response.

 

Offence Title	Number
Having an article with a blade or point in a public place	3440
Threaten with a blade or sharply pointed article in a public place	3715
Total	7155

 

Offence Title and Outcome Description	Number
Having an article with a blade or point in a public place	3440
Caution – Adult (Inc Conditional Caution)	29
Caution – Youth (Inc Conditional Caution)	52
Charge or Summons	1040
Community Resolution	20
Diversionary, educational or intervention activity, resulting from the crime report, has been undertaken and it is not in the public interest to take any further action	60
Evidential Difficulties – Victim Based – Named suspect not identified	117
Formal action against the offender is not in the public interest (Police)	10
Investigation Complete: No suspect identified	748
Named Suspect identified: evidential difficulties prevent further action (no victim support)	343
Named Suspect identified: evidential difficulties prevent further action (victim support)	764
Prosecution prevented – Named suspect identified but is too ill (physical or mental health) to prosecute	1
Not recorded	256
Threaten with a blade or sharply pointed article in a public place	3715
Caution – Adult (Inc Conditional Caution)	8
Caution – Youth (Inc Conditional Caution)	4
Charge or Summons	160
Community Resolution	4
Diversionary, educational or intervention activity, resulting from the crime report, has been undertaken and it is not in the public interest to take any further action	3
Evidential Difficulties – Victim Based – Named suspect not identified	506
Further action will be taken by another body	2
Investigation Complete: No suspect identified	1582
Named Suspect identified: evidential difficulties prevent further action (no victim support)	772
Named Suspect identified: evidential difficulties prevent further action (victim support)	496
Prosecution prevented – Named suspect identified but is below the age of criminal responsibility	2
Prosecution prevented – Named suspect identified but is too ill (physical or mental health) to prosecute	3
not recorded	173
Total	7155

 

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.

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