Anti-Social Behaviour Incidents 2010-2021

Keywords

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Publication Number

PUB 1356

FOI Reference Number

16284

Request Title

Anti-Social Behaviour Incidents

Date Range

2010 to 2021

Information Requested

Please provide me with the number of antisocial behaviour incidents recorded every calendar year since 2010, with a breakdown of the type of incidents reported.

Please provide me with the number of reports of antisocial behaviour received against the number of antisocial behaviour reports investigated.

Please also provide a breakdown of the type of incidents investigated.

Of all the incidents of antisocial behaviour investigated, in how many instances was further action taken?

Please provide a breakdown of the type of incidents for which action was taken.

Disclosure with Exemptions

Part Disclosure with Section 12(1) and Section 17(1) Exemptions

Information Correct as at

23 December 2021

Date of Disclosure

30 December 2021

Related Documents/Links

N/A

FOI 16284 Response

Having completed enquiries within Essex Police in respect of Section 1(1)(a), Essex Police does hold information relating to your request, however, the obligation of Section 1(1)(b) cannot be met as Essex Police does not hold all the information requested in a format that allows it to be retrieved within the time and cost limits of FOI.

When responding to a request for information under the terms of the FOIA, a public authority is not obliged to provide information if the authority estimates that the cost of the retrieval of the information requested would be in excess of £450 (equivalent to 18 hours work).  The costs criteria relates to a request in its entirety, which means that if we cannot retrieve all of the information requested within the costs limit, we are not obliged to retrieve any of the information requested.

Section 12(1) of the FOIA states that a public authority is not obliged to:

“…comply with a request for information if the authority estimates that the cost of complying with the request would exceed the appropriate limit.”

The following explanation outlines the difficulty Essex Police has in answering your request:

In relation to Questions 2 and 3, Essex Police are unable to accurately extract the level of detail in relation to your request from our current systems.  Essex Police systems are designed primarily for the management of individual cases and not primarily for the production of statistical information for FOI responses.  This request would entail manually extracting the requested data and then reviewing each incident one by one to establish the information if held as ASB Incidents are not recorded on S.T.O.R.M. (Strategic Tasking Organisational Resource Management system) as a crime.  They are reported as an incident rather than a Crime Type.  If an ASB Incident was subsequently change to a crime, this would be recorded on the Athena system.  To establish if information is held would, therefore, exceed the time and cost limits under the FOIA and would qualify as the creation of data as the results cannot be processed by means of purely sorting or filtering data sources or running a database query tool. There is no requirement under the act to create data purely to answer FOI requests.

Consequently, and to this extent, Essex Police are exempt from the duty to provide information you have requested under the provisions of Section 12(1) of the FOIA.  Therefore, and in accordance with Section 17(1) of the FOIA, this communication must act as a refusal notice to provide all of the information that could be interpreted as being captured by this part of your request.

Having said that and in an effort to assist, although excess cost removes the force’s obligations under the FOIA, Essex Police can confirm the following:

Caveats: 

The data is correct as at 23 December 2021.

The 2021 results include data to 31 October 2021.

The results show the number of Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB) Incidents by year since 2010 and a breakdown by Incident Type.

The number of ASB Incidents by year since 2010 are listed in the below table.  The 2021 results include data to 31 October 2021.

Year	Number of Incidents
2010	71272
2011	62827
2012	57351
2013	56900
2014	54759
2015	53527
2016	52555
2017	50090
2018	47240
2019	42084
2020	53722
2021	37641
Grand Total	639968

The number of ASB Incidents by year and Incident Type since 2010 are listed in the below table.  The 2021 results include data to 31 October 2021.

Incident Type	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	Grand Total
AB LOAD										1			1
ABAND 999	29	5			26	59	70	51	52	63	39	41	435
ABND VEH	2186	2284	2314	2724	2384	3542	2755	2497	2508	2168	1747	1273	28382
ABSENT						1							1
ACCOSTING					8	15	15	9	31	28	21	11	138
ACT AGGRES	3	4	1										8
ADVICE REQ	14	3	2	1	652	972	176						1820
AIR GEN	1	3	1	2	1		1	1		1	1		12
AIR GND IN		1											1
AIR WEAPON	160	19	3	116	170	133	131	128	110	96	93	43	1202
AIR/C PAX	38	18	20	23	27	43	42	115	115	105	73	35	654
AIR/P PAX	79	35	72	87	111	132	185	361	250	255	179	137	1883
AIRCRAFT			17	18	9	12	3	10	4	3	3	2	81
ALRM-CAR	1	2											3
ALRM-CCTV							1		2	4	2	2	11
ALRM-INTDR					2	3	2	2	2		2	1	14
ALRM-LONE					2		4	3	2		3	1	15
ALRM-NRUC						1							1
ALRM-P/ATT					5	7	5	5	10	9	9	5	55
ALRM-POLIC					1								1
ALRM-TRACK									1	5	2	3	11
ANIMAL	2301	27	1		64	95	56	20	11	15	13	8	2611
ANIMAL ASB	92	593											685
ANPR HIT					26	20	40	36	44	52	61	20	299
ARREST REQ					3	3	4	4		1	1	2	18
ARSON					1	8	18	17	16	11	11	8	90
ASS AGENCY	6	1	1		53	79	206	191	172	288	299	176	1472
ASSAULT					41	98	131	66	47	41	27	9	460
ASSLT ABH	2	2			18	54	59	34	17	16	15	1	218
ASSLT COM	1		1										2
ASSLT GBH							1						1
ASST STOP	12	1	1										14
ATTN TO	5	1			166	499	633	689	888	923	863	395	5062
B/DWN VEH	43	18	5										66
BAIL BR										28	37	13	78
BAIL BR H										3	1	2	6
BAIL BR ML										13	12	11	36
BAILBREACH	14	1			16	45	61	39	43	3			222
BANK PRTCL								3	16	29	27	13	88
BLACKMAIL								1		1	3		5
BOMB CALL						1		2	4		1		8
BT TELEMAT											5		5
BURG AGR												1	1
BURG BUSNS									3	3	1	1	8
BURG DWELL					2	9	5						16
BURG OTHR					3	7	4	4					18
BURG RES D								3	6	4	1	1	15
BURG RESND								1		3			4
BURST PIPE	1												1
CALL ON					17	24	51	28	23	29	27	15	214
CBRN					1		2	1	2		1		7
CHILD AB							17	11	11	12	12	1	64
COLL/ST	1	1											2
CONCERN	116	25	1	2	608	754	930	469	229	184	267	112	3697
CONCRN OTH										1	1		2
COURT WARN							1	2		1	1		5
COVID BR											4157	8270	12427
COVID FC											115	112	227
COVID ISO											186	284	470
COVID Q											144	156	300
COVID R6											712	160	872
CRIM DAM	1		2	2	46	134	128	116	56	50	61	40	636
CSE							15	11	6	10	2	2	46
DANG COND	8	3	2										13
DANG LOAD	1	3	1										5
DANG POSN	32	22	2										56
DEBRIS	3	5	1										9
DECAMP	3	1		1	2	2	11	4	9	4	7	4	48
DEMO	3												3
DISP CIVIL	35	9	1		496	391	463	261	33	29	40	12	1770
DISP ORDER	19	34	6										59
DISQ DRIVE	1	2											3
DISSATISFY					18	24	29	23	9	13	20	5	141
DISTURB	10035	9918	10599	12989	10026	10849	9917	9569	10503	10079	10350	6386	121220
DOG ASS										1	3		4
DOG DANG							153	138	349	264	184	84	1172
DOM ABUSE	2	1	15		4	5	9	8	9	5	8	1	67
DOM HIGH					7	3	8	10	1	2	3		34
DOM MED					21	9	13	12	14	8	14		91
DOM STD				2	6	10	7	5	12	3	5		50
DRINK/DRIV	32	17	8				45	46	57	83	95	45	428
DRONE									83	128	199	128	538
DRONE AUTH												6	6
DRUGS					507	1159	1518	1987	3039	3641	5106	3474	20431
DRUNK	1883	2034	1494										5411
DRVG COMP	475	348	168	81	74	186	135	97	75	99	112	46	1896
DUPLICATE	3	1	5	3	265	96	12	7	6	12	7	4	421
EBORD-CNCN										1	2		3
EBORD-WNTD										1	2	1	4
EMERGENCY			1			2	3	2	1	4	4	3	20
ERROR					1				1				2
EXPLOSION						2	3	4	2	2	2	1	16
EXTERNAL					1	8	15	18	17	9	12	4	84
F/ARM INC	3	1			3	4	4	14	11	16	21	8	85
F/ARM INFO					2	2	9	7	9	9	17	10	65
F/ARM SEEN	4				5	15	19	14	22	16	16	10	121
FAIL/ STOP	9	7			2	6	8	10	12	25	29	8	116
FAULTY ATS		1											1
FIGHT	2217	2064	1520				953	1087	1050	961	840	444	11136
FIRE	5	4			41	112	132	116	73	52	41	29	605
FIREWORKS	544	513	490	335	358	387	395	456	458	484	734	212	5366
FLARES					1				1		1		3
FLOODALERT					2	1	4	18	2	10	13	3	53
FLOODING		1			21	6	10	5	4	17	19	12	95
FLOODWARN					2					1	1		4
FLYTIPPING	165	210			189	100	58	89	200	200	191	120	1522
FORGE NOTE			1										1
FRAUD					10	16	5	8	13	15	26	7	100
HARASS	3	2	2		321	405	301	203	162	156	103	60	1718
HARE COURS	66	33			14	39	31	56	49	37	64	50	439
HATE CRIME	58	16	4	4	70	156	154	112	233	163	201	98	1269
HAZCHEM		2	1		2	3	3	2	1	3	3	2	22
HBV							1						1
HOAX CALL	1701	348		1	11	50	58	31	17	22	29	12	2280
HORSESTRAY												1	1
HWAY DISRP			16	71	143	182	165	86	77	116	132	63	1051
I/O F/ARMS									1				1
ILL IMMIGS					1	1	2	4	3	3			14
ILL/INJURY						3	3	3	7	3	2	1	22
IND EXP	1												1
INFO	17	8	5	1	1220	1717	2140	2112	2009	2067	2712	949	14957
INJUNC/BR										15	13	3	31
INSECURE					19	74	70	58	69	79	61	39	469
INTIMIDATE	49	65	56							10	11	10	201
KIDNAP											3		3
LASERLIGHT				3	6	9	6	7	7	5	8	1	52
LIC PREMS	64	24											88
LICENSING	2				38	39	36	17	3	9	10	4	158
LOCK OUT	7	2			2	2	2	2	5	3		1	26
LOW FLY	1	3	1										5
M/V FOUND					10	19	30	46	29	35	14	7	190
M/V INTER						8	3	1	11	20	12	4	59
MAL COMMS						1	27	137	77	25	27	6	300
MARINE		1											1
MENT HLTH	65	14		1	183	307	262	139	127	220	130	69	1517
MG11 REQ					1	1	1						3
MGT INC												1	1
MISPER ME		1			1	1	2				1		6
MOWP					2	4	2	4	2	6	2		22
NOK MSG								2	1		2	1	6
NUIS CALLS	2722	2370	1668										6760
NUIS COMMS			930	4099	3068	1595	313						10005
NUIS NEIGH	6201	6070	6514	6885	6236	5057	4352	4182	3202	1486	2006	1186	53377
NUISANCE								1	7743	10003	9413	5942	33102
NUIS-NOISE	6224	6474	5284	3895	4066	1830	1098	1170	923	551	1008	870	33393
NUIS-OTH	6936	7512	7641	9192	5507	4126	5183	5346	1681				53124
NUIS-VEH	5421	4945	4341	4756	4647	4916	5980	5523	3925	2924	4083	3645	55106
NUIS-YTH	16885	13213	11033	8851	6572	5625	5896	7115	2278				77468
O/DOSE	1	1											2
OBSTRUCT	1751	1039	359	259	828	1060	1211	1068	973	804	682	522	10556
OFF MANAG											1		1
OFF WEAP			1		37	146	281	323	392	475	400	230	2285
OP EMBODY						1							1
OP JAVELIN												1	1
ORGANISED											7	1	8
P/ORD INC		1	1		118	154	156	148	106	122	146	84	1036
PEDESTRIAN		1	2				3	4	4	4	6	4	28
PEDLARS	4	6	2										12
POACHING	8	4			2	1	3	3			9	5	35
POLVEH INC			1	1		4	1		1	2	4	1	15
PREV BOP	150	38	2		98	218	210	196	183	208	172	116	1591
PRISON RCL						1	3	2		6	5		17
PROPERTY		1			27	54	41	48	69	62	49	27	378
PROSTITUTE	76	72	109	48	64	98	75	84	56	37	56	71	846
PROTEST					1	8	6	5	6	14	7	7	54
PURSUIT											1		1
RAIL INC	2												2
RAPE	1						1			1			3
RAVE UME											68	36	104
REQ AGENCY					21	31	31	16	11	20	21	11	162
REQ POL	3	3	2	1	672	894	279						1854
ROAD CONDS	3	11	3										17
ROAD RELAT			19	58	92	140	204	130	118	180			941
ROAD SIGN		2											2
ROADASSIST	4	2											6
ROBBERY						5	2	1	1	1	1	1	12
ROULETTE									2				2
RTC		2	7	12	35	36	62	45	15	11	17	6	248
RTC ANIM		2											2
RTC INJ		1	4		3	5	5	3	1	2	3		27
RTC N/I	1		5										6
RTC N/S	2	5	3										10
SEC165 DL	6	4	1										11
SEC165 FTS		1											1
SEC165 INS	11	4											15
SEC165/59				1	11	9	14	10	8	16	14	6	89
SEC59RCVR	6	2	2										10
SEX OFFNC					9	44	45	29	23	31	33	25	239
SILENT 999	24	6				5	3	1	1	7	4	2	53
SLAV/TRAFF								4	1	2	5	2	14
SOC DIST											2905	61	2966
SOC_SVCS					4	2	5						11
SP EVENT							1	1	1	1	1	3	8
SP/OPS					2	3	2	1	3	4	1	1	17
STABBING					1	1			4			1	7
STALKING										1	11	3	15
SUD DEATH					1								1
SUIC ATT	1												1
SUS CIRCS	231	46	1	9	1687	2106	2196	1113	697	580	666	409	9741
SUS M/OFF	1	2			36	44	56	45	86	161	253	96	780
SUS PACK					1	1	2	5	1	3		2	15
SUS PREMS	28	27			22	58	113	110	98	98	93	61	708
SUSP DET					19	34	29	37	62	67	37	17	302
TASK							1			1			2
TEST							1				1		2
THEFT					16	26	22	21	16	15	15	6	137
THEFT FROM					2	5		2	3	4	2		18
THEFT VEH					1	5	2	4	3	4	1		20
THREAT/KIL					42	38	44	31	20	15	16	4	210
THREATS	1446	1839	2300	2122	1778	1551	1166	834	424	170	156	78	13864
TRANSPT			1	3	2	3	1	2	2	2	1	1	18
TREE DOWN		1	2		3	8	10	17	10	27	41	7	126
TRESPASS	500	357	272	241	454	241	126	152	143	166	198	136	2986
U/L LARGE		1							2				3
UFO						1	1						2
UNAUTH ABS					1								1
UNAUTH CMP						162	299	280	282	136	193	134	1486
UTILITY					2	9	31	11	12	10	7	2	84
UXB	1								2		1	1	5
UXO												1	1
Grand Total	71272	62827	57351	56900	54759	53527	52555	50090	47240	42084	53722	37641	639968

Every effort is made to ensure that the data provided by Essex Police is accurate and complete.  However, Essex Police systems are designed primarily for the management of individual cases and not for the purposes of providing data to answer specific FOI enquiries.  Please note although data can be extracted from a number of sources via database queries, the results may be subject to inaccuracies.  Care should be taken to understand our return when considering the interpretation or further use of the data.

Section 16(1) of the FOIA provides that a public authority is required to provide advice and assistance, Essex Police can confirm that we could provide the number of ASB Incidents attended if required.

The intention of Section 16 is to provide assistance in resubmitting a valid request.  Please note that any advice and assistance under Section 16 regarding resubmission of a request does not indicate that resubmission will provide a full disclosure, each submission will be assessed and if a disclosure is deemed harmful, then the appropriate exemptions will apply.

FOI Reference Number

16464

Request Title

Anti-Social Behaviour Incidents

Date Range

01 October 2020 to 30 September 2021

Information Requested

How many phone calls and online contacts did your police force receive about anti-social behaviour from 01 October 2020 to 30 September 2021?

Please provide separate figures for phone calls and online contacts.

Of these (giving answers for phone and online contacts):

a)     How many led to no action (no action means none of the actions in points b to e in the list below were taken)?

b)     How many were resolved at the time of contact by a call handler, or online at the time of contact by a member of staff on Live Chat?

c)     How many led to an officer being dispatched?

d)     How many led to an officer or other staff member making contact with the complainant or alleged perpetrator(s) after the call or contact, but not visiting in person?

e)     How many were referred to another agency such as a local authority or housing association (either by the police making the referral, or advising the complainant to make contact with the other agency themselves)?

Disclosure with Exemptions

Part Disclosure with Section 12(1) and Section 17(1) Exemptions

Information Correct as at

23 December 2021

Date of Disclosure

30 December 2021

Related Documents/Links

N/A

FOI 16464 Response

Having completed enquiries within Essex Police in respect of Section 1(1)(a), Essex Police does hold information relating to your request, however, the obligation of Section 1(1)(b) cannot be met as Essex Police does not hold all the information requested in a format that allows it to be retrieved within the time and cost limits of FOI.

When responding to a request for information under the terms of the FOIA, a public authority is not obliged to provide information if the authority estimates that the cost of the retrieval of the information requested would be in excess of £450 (equivalent to 18 hours work).  The costs criteria relates to a request in its entirety, which means that if we cannot retrieve all of the information requested within the costs limit, we are not obliged to retrieve any of the information requested.

Section 12(1) of the FOIA states that a public authority is not obliged to:

“…comply with a request for information if the authority estimates that the cost of complying with the request would exceed the appropriate limit.”

The following explanation outlines the difficulty Essex Police has in answering your request:

In relation to Questions a, b, d and e, Essex Police are unable to accurately extract the level of detail in relation to your request from our current systems.  Essex Police systems are designed primarily for the management of individual cases and not primarily for the production of statistical information for FOI responses.  This request would entail manually extracting the requested data and then reviewing each incident one by one to establish the information if held.  To establish if information is held would, therefore, exceed the time and cost limits under the FOIA and would qualify as the creation of data as the results cannot be processed by means of purely sorting or filtering data sources or running a database query tool. There is no requirement under the act to create data purely to answer FOI requests.

Consequently, and to this extent, Essex Police are exempt from the duty to provide information you have requested under the provisions of Section 12(1) of the FOIA.  Therefore, and in accordance with Section 17(1) of the FOIA, this communication must act as a refusal notice to provide all of the information that could be interpreted as being captured by this part of your request.

Having said that and in an effort to assist, although excess cost removes the force’s obligations under the FOIA, Essex Police can confirm the following:

Caveats: 

The data is correct as at 23 December 2021.

Dates:  The data includes Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB) Incidents from 01 October 2020 to 30 September 2021.

How many phone calls and online contacts did your Police force receive about Anti-Social Behaviour from 01 October 2020 to 30 September 2021?  Please provide separate figures for phone calls and online contacts.

Contact Method	Number of ASB Incidents Reported
Online	2089
Phone	36288
Other	12129
Grand Total	50506

c) How many led to an officer being dispatched?

Contact Method	Officer Allocated	Officer Not Allocated
Online	990	1099
Phone	22708	13580
Other	7057	5072
Grand Total	30755	19751

Every effort is made to ensure that the data provided by Essex Police is accurate and complete.  However, Essex Police systems are designed primarily for the management of individual cases and not for the purposes of providing data to answer specific FOI enquiries.  Please note although data can be extracted from a number of sources via database queries, the results may be subject to inaccuracies.  Care should be taken to understand our return when considering the interpretation or further use of the data.