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Released under investigation (230A/23)

Request

In each of the calendar years (January 1 to December 31) going back to January 1 2018 to present day, how many people were bailed having been arrested on suspicion of:

-All sexual offences
– And of which rape

-Murder

-Aggravated Burglary

-Robbery

-Violence against the person

For each of the above, please can you break them down by ethnicity?

For those same offences, how many people were arrested and Released Under Investigation (RIU)?

For each of the above, please can you break them down by ethnicity?

Response

Our data are not organised in such a way as to allow us to provide this information within the appropriate (cost) limit within the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act (see ‘Reason for Decision’ below).

Although excess cost removes the force’s obligations under the Freedom of Information Act, as a gesture of goodwill I have supplied information, relative to your request, retrieved before it was realised that the fees limit would be exceeded (see enclosed) I trust this is helpful, but it does not affect our legal right to rely on the fee’s regulations for the remainder of the request.

Please note that for the time period that you have requested, the way that we record the information has changed and therefore you will see pre-April 2021 data and post April 2021 data.  This data has been retrieved from two different recording systems.  As a result, the two different systems record different things in different ways, this may result in data being available from one system but not the other, and presented in different ways.

Please also note that the total offences for each offence are lower that the Bail and RUI figures, this is because where a person has been accused of more than one sexual offence under the one custody record, they will be bailed / RUI for each individual crime accused. For example:

Person X is arrested for offence A, B and C, one custody record is created, then Person X is bailed they will have 3 x bail records, Person X may also have been bailed more than once within that investigation.

This data goes up to 20th Feb 2023

 

Please note that not all ethnicities are recorded, we have provided the data that we are able to retrieve. To retrieve all ethnicities would mean an individual search of each record, which would exceed the 18 hours for the purposes of the FOI Act.

 

SEXUAL OFFENCES – excluding rape

 

Bails and RUI’s for sexual offence excluding rape

 

Pre-April 2021

 

Bails

 

Bailed – Sexual offences excluding rape       Jan – Apr  
Count of Custody Ref No Bailed Date        
Self-Assessed Ethnicity 2018 2019 2020 2021 Grand Total
A1 Indian 39 39 39 6 123
A2 Pakistani 62 55 79 17 213
A3 Bangladeshi 20 14 22 3 59
A9 Any other Asian background 27 40 40 15 122
B1 Caribbean 31 49 60 17 157
B2 African 38 37 31 8 114
B9 Any other Black background 23 13 25 6 67
Blank   1 1   2
M1 White and Black Caribbean 13 15 11 2 41
M2 White and Black African     1 1 2
M3 White and Asian 3   1   4
M9 Any other mixed 8 4 3 2 17
NS Not stated 16 24 29 13 82
O1 Chinese   8     8
O9 Any other 14 14 12 4 44
W1 British 549 539 610 142 1840
W2 Irish 15 3 5 1 24
W9 Any other white background 48 30 39 19 136
Grand Total 906 885 1008 256 3055

 

Pre-April 2021

Released under investigation

 

RUI – sexual offences excluding rape.       Jan- Apr  
Count of Custody Ref No Release Date        
Self-Assessed Ethnicity 2018 2019 2020 2021 Grand Total
A1 Indian 26 23 19 3 71
A2 Pakistani 22 37 38 20 117
A3 Bangladeshi 7 11 10 3 31
A9 Any other Asian background 10 20 18 7 55
B1 Caribbean 12 22 19 5 58
B2 African 20 8 12 3 43
B9 Any other Black background 3 7 11 3 24
Blank 242 195 172 43 652
M1 White and Black Caribbean 5 7 4 2 18
M2 White and Black African     1   1
M3 White and Asian 2       2
M9 Any other mixed 7 1 1   9
NS Not stated 3 14 11 5 33
O1 Chinese   2     2
O9 Any other 8 4 11 2 25
W1 British 264 286 266 66 882
W2 Irish 4 1 1 1 7
W9 Any other white background 14 14 12 9 49
Grand Total 649 652 606 172 2079

 

Post April 2021

 

Bailed to police station

 

 

Self-Ethnicity 2021 2022 2023 Grand Total
Not recorded 118 19   137
African 4 16 6 26
Any Other Asian Background 13 18 13 44
Any Other Black/ African/Caribbean background   7 4 11
Any Other Ethnic Group   4 3 7
Any Other Mixed/Multiple ethnic background   6 2 8
Any Other White Background 1 16 2 19
Bangladeshi   22 3 25
Caribbean 1 14 8 23
Chinese   3   3
English/ Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British 49 380 56 485
Indian 3 37 10 50
Irish   1 1 2
NS1 5 5 1 11
Pakistani 30 73 12 115
White and Asian   2   2
White and Black African 2 4   6
White and Black Caribbean 7 18 3 28
Grand Total 233 645 124 1002

Post April 2021

 

Released under investigation

 

Self-Ethnicity 2021 2022 2023 Grand Total
Not recorded 334 63 1 398
African 11 17   28
Any Other Asian Background 9 22   31
Any Other Black/ African/Caribbean background   5   5
Any Other Ethnic Group 2 2   4
Any Other White Background 5 16   21
Bangladeshi 9 20   29
Caribbean 11 14   25
English/ Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British 61 211 1 273
Indian 7 23   30
Irish 1 14   15
NS1   1   1
Pakistani 9 47   56
White and Asian   1   1
White and Black Caribbean 3 7   10
Grand Total 462 463 2 927

 

RAPE

 

Bails and RUI’s for Rape

 

Pre-April 2021

 

Bails

 

Self-Assessed Ethnicity 2018 2019 2020 2021  Total
A1 Indian A1 34 27 22 10 93
A2 Pakistani A2 59 48 68 12 187
A3 Bangladeshi A3 13 13 19 2 47
A9 Any other Asian background A9 21 24 20 12 77
B1 Caribbean B1 38 40 67 14 159
B2 African B2 35 33 43 18 129
B9 Any other Black background B9 23 11 13 4 51
M1 White and Black Caribbean M1 11 22 12 8 53
M2 White and Black African M2   2 1   3
M3 White and Asian M3 1 2 2   5
M9 Any other mixed M9 4 3 7 1 15
NS Not stated NS 20 8 12 5 45
O1 Chinese O1 1 2     3
O9 Any other O9 8 6 10 6 30
W1 British W1 261 261 284 57 863
W2 Irish W2 1 1 3   5
W9 Any other white background W9 28 27 24 11 90
 Not recorded Not recorded     1   1
Grand total 558 530 608 160 1856

 

Pre-April 2021

Released under investigation

 

2018 2019 2020 2021 Total
A1 Indian 19 20 14 4 57
A2 Pakistani 29 37 35 8 109
A3 Bangladeshi 5 7 10 4 26
A9 Any other Asian background 12 14 10 10 46
B1 Caribbean 21 27 28 10 86
B2 African 23 22 20 8 73
B9 Any other Black background 14 6 7 2 29
Blank 238 182 141 30 591
M1 White and Black Caribbean 11 7 7 4 29
M2 White and Black African   1 1   2
M3 White and Asian 2 2 1 1 6
M9 Any other mixed 2 1 4 1 8
NS Not stated 10 4 4 1 19
O1 Chinese 1 1     2
O9 Any other 10 3 4   17
W1 British 148 160 158 28 494
W2 Irish     1   1
W9 Any other white background 13 17 8 5 43
Grand Total 558 511 453 116 1638

 

Post April 2021 – Bailed to Police Station

 

Date Self-Ethnicity Total
2021 Not recorded 143
  African 9
  Any Other Black/ African/Caribbean background 3
  Any Other Ethnic Group 1
  Any Other Mixed/Multiple ethnic background 1
  Any Other White Background 3
  Bangladeshi 1
  Caribbean 8
  English/ Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British 35
  Indian 6
  NS1 1
  Pakistani 9
  White and Asian 1
  White and Black Caribbean 8
2021 Total   229
2022 Not recorded 23
  African 30
  Any Other Asian Background 24
  Any Other Black/ African/Caribbean background 9
  Any Other Ethnic Group 9
  Any Other Mixed/Multiple ethnic background 4
  Any Other White Background 30
  Bangladeshi 6
  Caribbean 26
  Chinese 2
  English/ Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British 185
  Indian 12
  Irish 2
  NS1 8
  Pakistani 47
  White and Asian 2
  White and Black African 2
  White and Black Caribbean 15
2022 Total   436
2023 Not recorded 3
  African 11
  Any Other Asian Background 8
  Any Other Black/ African/Caribbean background 3
  Any Other Ethnic Group 4
  Any Other Mixed/Multiple ethnic background 1
  Any Other White Background 4
  Bangladeshi 1
  Caribbean 1
  English/ Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British 57
  Indian 4
  NS1 2
  Pakistani 6
  White and Asian 4
  White and Black African 1
  White and Black Caribbean 3
2023 Total   113

 

Post April 2021

Released under investigation

 

Date Self-Ethnicity Total
2021 Not recorded 220
  African 8
  Any Other Asian Background 5
  Any Other Black/ African/Caribbean background 2
  Any Other Ethnic Group 1
  Any Other White Background 3
  Bangladeshi 1
  Caribbean 14
  English/ Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British 70
  Indian 5
  NS1 4
  Pakistani 22
  White and Asian 2
  White and Black Caribbean 3
2021 Total   360
2022 Not recorded 58
  African 34
  Any Other Asian Background 8
  Any Other Black/ African/Caribbean background 5
  Any Other Ethnic Group 8
  Any Other White Background 8
  Bangladeshi 10
  Caribbean 23
  English/ Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British 175
  Indian 16
  Irish 1
  NS1 9
  Pakistani 44
  White and Asian 5
  White and Black Caribbean 9
2022 Total   413
2023 Caribbean 1
  English/ Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British 1
  Pakistani 1
2023 Total   3
 Grand total   1554

MURDER

 

Bails and RUI’s for Murder

 

Pre-April 2021

 

Bails

 

Self-Assessed Ethnicity 2018 2019 2020 2021 Total
A1 Indian A1 10 2 1   13
A2 Pakistani A2 3 3 2 1 9
A9 Any other Asian background A9 1   1 1 3
B1 Caribbean B1 8 4 4 3 19
B2 African B2 5 3   6 14
B9 Any other Black background B9 1 1   2 4
M1 White and Black Caribbean M1 2 3 2   7
M2 White and Black African M2   2     2
M3 White and Asian M3 1       1
W1 British W1 22 27 35 5 89
W2 Irish W2     2   2
W9 Any other white background W9 4 1 2 3 10
Total 57 46 49 21 173

 

Released under investigation

 

Self-Assessed Ethnicity 2018 2019 2020 2021 Total
A1 Indian 5       5
A2 Pakistani 5 1   2 8
A9 Any other Asian background   1     1
B1 Caribbean 4 3 4 2 13
B2 African 4 8   1 13
B9 Any other Black background   3     3
Blank 13 5 8 2 28
M1 White and Black Caribbean 2 1 2   5
M2 White and Black African   1 1   2
M3 White and Asian 1       1
W1 British 9 6 22 2 39
W2 Irish     1   1
W9 Any other white background 3   1   4
Total 46 29 39 9 123

 

Post April 2021

 

Bails

 

Date Ethnicity Total
2021 Not recorded 19
African 0
Any Other Black/ African/Caribbean background 0
Any Other White Background 3
Caribbean 0
English/ Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British 2
NS1 1
Pakistani 0
White and Black Caribbean 0
2021 Total 25
2022 Not recorded 6
African 0
Any Other Asian Background 0
Any Other Black/ African/Caribbean background 2
Any Other Ethnic Group 0
Any Other Mixed/Multiple ethnic background 0
Any Other White Background 2
Bangladeshi 0
Caribbean 7
English/ Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British 12
Indian 1
NS1 6
Pakistani 10
White and Asian 0
White and Black African 0
White and Black Caribbean 1
2022 Total 47
2023 African 0
Any Other Asian Background 0
Caribbean 2
English/ Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British 1
Pakistani 3
White and Black African 0
White and Black Caribbean 0
2023 Total 6
Grand total 78

 

Released under investigation

 

Date Ethnicity Total
2021 Not recorded 14
Any Other Black/ African/Caribbean background 6
Any Other Mixed/Multiple ethnic background 4
Any Other White Background 2
Caribbean 4
English/ Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British 12
Pakistani 2
White and Black Caribbean 3
2021 Total 47
2022 Not recorded 1
African 1
Any Other Black/ African/Caribbean background 0
Any Other Mixed/Multiple ethnic background 0
Any Other White Background 1
Caribbean 8
Chinese 0
English/ Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British 10
Indian 0
Pakistani 2
White and Black Caribbean 4
2022 Total 27
2023 Pakistani 2
2023 Total 2
Grand total 76

 

ROBBERY

 

Bails and RUI’s for Robbery

 

Pre-April 2021

 

Bail to Police Station

 

  2018 2019 2020 2021  Total
Ethnicity Self-Assessed Ethnicity          
A1 Indian A1 23 15 23 4 65
A2 Pakistani A2 83 112 77 16 288
A3 Bangladeshi A3 7 13 7 2 29
A9 Any other Asian background A9 18 25 22 8 73
B1 Caribbean B1 81 162 137 16 396
B2 African B2 53 68 33 9 163
B9 Any other Black background B9 37 63 48 4 152
M1 White and Black Caribbean M1 49 52 47 7 155
M2 White and Black African M2 3 6 4 1 14
M3 White and Asian M3 13 7 4 1 25
M9 Any other mixed M9 17 15 11 3 46
NS Not stated NS 11 22 15 9 57
O9 Any other O9 16 15 9 2 42
W1 British W1 221 308 302 77 908
W2 Irish W2 3 1 8 2 14
W9 Any other white background W9 19 31 24 8 82
Grand total 654 915 771 169 2509

 

 

 

Released under investigation pre-April 2021

 

2018 2019 2020 2021 Total
Ethnicity          
A1 Indian 9 9 11 2 31
A2 Pakistani 41 45 43 10 139
A3 Bangladeshi 5 9 5 1 20
A9 Any other Asian background 8 18 14 3 43
B1 Caribbean 45 84 70 15 214
B2 African 18 27 27 6 78
B9 Any other Black background 20 28 28 5 81
Blank 284 265 227 67 843
M1 White and Black Caribbean 21 31 18 6 76
M2 White and Black African   3 4   7
M3 White and Asian 5 5 5 1 16
M9 Any other mixed 5 8 8 2 23
NS Not stated 4 9 4 2 19
O9 Any other 4 11 6   21
W1 British 103 135 125 49 412
W2 Irish     4 1 5
W9 Any other white background 13 11 8 9 41
Grand Total 585 698 607 179 2069

Post April 2021

 

Bail to Police Station

 

Date Self-Ethnicity Robbery
2021 Not recorded 121
African
Any Other Asian Background 1
Any Other Black/ African/Caribbean background 3
Any Other White Background 1
Bangladeshi 5
Caribbean 6
English/ Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British 17
Indian 3
NS1 9
Pakistani 5
White and Black African 4
White and Black Caribbean 3
2021 Total 178
2022 Not recorded 13
African 25
Any Other Asian Background 13
Any Other Black/ African/Caribbean background 21
Any Other Ethnic Group 12
Any Other Mixed/Multiple ethnic background 6
Any Other White Background 23
Bangladeshi 7
Caribbean 67
Chinese 2
English/ Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British 117
Indian 6
Irish 3
NS1 13
Pakistani 35
White and Asian 4
White and Black African 5
White and Black Caribbean 50
2022 Total 422
2023 African 7
Any Other Asian Background 4
Any Other Black/ African/Caribbean background 8
Any Other Ethnic Group 5
Any Other Mixed/Multiple ethnic background 2
Any Other White Background 5
Caribbean 24
English/ Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British 51
Indian 4
NS1 4
Pakistani 22
White and Asian 1
White and Black Caribbean 18
2023 Total 155
Grand total 755

 

Released under investigation

 

Date Self-ethnicity Robbery
2021 Not recorded 197
African 2
Any Other Black/ African/Caribbean background
Any Other Mixed/Multiple ethnic background 5
Any Other White Background 3
Caribbean 10
English/ Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British 35
Indian 4
NS1 10
Pakistani 1
White and Asian 1
White and Black Caribbean 3
2021 Total 271
2022 Not recorded 11
African 30
Any Other Asian Background 9
Any Other Black/ African/Caribbean background 12
Any Other Mixed/Multiple ethnic background 13
Any Other White Background 13
Bangladeshi 4
Caribbean 56
English/ Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British 94
Indian 7
Irish 2
Pakistani 21
White and Asian 6
White and Black Caribbean 21
2022 Total 299
2023 Any Other Black/ African/Caribbean background 1
White and Black Caribbean 2
2023 Total 3
Grand total 573

 

AGGRAVATED BURGLARY

 

Pre-April 2021

 

Bailed to police station

 

Ethnicity 2018 2019 2020 2021 Total
A1 Indian A1  0 3  0 1 4
A2 Pakistani A2 11 2 3 2 18
A3 Bangladeshi A3 3 1  0 0 4
A9 Any other Asian background A9  0 3  0 0 3
B1 Caribbean B1 4 1 7 0 12
B2 African B2 1 1  0  0 2
B9 Any other Black background B9 0 1 2 0 3
M3 White and Asian M3  0  0 2  0 2
NS Not stated NS 1 1 1  0 3
O9 Any other O9  0 0 1 3 4
W1 British W1 9 12 8 5 34
W9 Any other white background W9  0 2 5  0 7
Total 29 27 29 11 96

 

Pre-April 2021

Released under investigation

 

 Ethnicity 2018 2019 2020 2021 Grand Total
W1 British 4 3 5 1 13
A2 Pakistani 9 0 1 0 10
B2 African 1 0 0 0 1
A3 Bangladeshi 1 1 0 0 2
NS Not stated 1 0 0 0 1
A9 Any other Asian background 0 0 2 0 2
B1 Caribbean 0 0 6 0 6
O9 Any other 0 0 1 1 2
B9 Any other Black background 0 0 1 0 1
M3 White and Asian 0 0 2 0 2
W9 Any other white background 0 0 3 1 4
A1 Indian 0 0 1 1
Blank 4 0 8 3 15
Grand Total 20 4 30 6 60

VIOLENCE AGAINST THE PERSON

In order to identify Violence Against the Person (which is a very broad category) we need to have the Home Office Codes so we can identify and group the offences. For some time, we haven’t had Home Office Codes in custody data so we cannot use them to categorise the offences.

Therefore, every single custody record would need to be assessed in order to locate this data, which would exceed the time limitations for the purposes of the FOI Act.

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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