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Blade, Knife, Possession, Assault, Murder, Weapon
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Please note that this information is correct as at 03/02/2021 and may be subject to change. Essex Police aim to review and update this publication annually.
As with all publications of information by Essex Police, please note caveats may apply regarding the accuracy of data.
Charges for Possession of a Bladed Article
January 2016 to December 2020
Information relating to the annual number of individuals charged with 'having an article with a blade or point in a public place' – Home Office Classification Code 008/26 (“Possession of a bladed article”) for each year. Suspect figures broken down by Age category, Self-Defined Ethnicity, and Gender. Data also provided for the number of individuals charged with Possession of a bladed article who have also been charged with either Assault or Murder within the same calendar year.
Where an individual has been charged with Assault or Murder and within the same year also charged with Possession of a bladed article please note that the offences will not necessarily be connected. As per Home Office Counting Rules (HOCR), if when a individual is in possession of a bladed article it has been used in the commission of another notifiable offence (e.g. Robbery or Assault) the related notifiable offence will be recorded – not the Possession of a bladed article offence. Please refer to HOCR under 10D Possession of an Article with a blade or point for relevant examples as provided by the Home Office.
Ethnicity Breakdown shown is in respect of Self-Defined ethnicity as opposed to Officer Defined. Self-Defined ethnicity is regarded as a more accurate representation.
The Suspect Nominals for each offence type are matched by their unique Nominal Iteration Group Reference on the Athena recording system. As outlined within the publication statement, caveats may apply regarding accuracy of data.
2019 – 2020 numbers relate to offence counts for unique individuals. An individual can be charged for offences spanning multiple categories.
Totals may not always be the sum of individual categories; a unique individual may be represented in multiple offences spanning multiple age groups or using different self-defined ethnicity codes.
All figures show the number of individuals dealt with for the relative offence, and not the total number of offences recorded. The sub-status of all included individuals has been recorded as Charged/Summonsed/Postal Requisition and the offence has been assigned Outcome 1 or 1a.
Annual figures are all based on the relevant calendar year that the offence was solved i.e. assigned Outcome 1 or 1a.
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Offence Disposal – by Calendar Year |
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---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Suspect Category Type |
2016 |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
Grand Total |
Age |
Suspect age 10 - 18 |
45 |
62 |
71 |
51 |
28 |
257 |
Suspect age 19 – 25 |
46 |
63 |
70 |
70 |
44 |
293 |
|
Suspect age 26 – 40 |
76 |
83 |
85 |
87 |
87 |
418 |
|
Suspect age 41 – 55 |
31 |
46 |
34 |
33 |
25 |
169 |
|
Suspect age over 55 |
9 |
3 |
4 |
11 |
5 |
32 |
|
Grand Total |
207 |
257 |
264 |
252 |
188 |
1168 |
|
Gender |
Female |
11 |
20 |
20 |
21 |
18 |
90 |
Male |
196 |
236 |
244 |
231 |
170 |
1077 |
|
Not Recorded |
|
1 |
|
|
|
1 |
|
Grand Total |
207 |
257 |
264 |
252 |
188 |
1168 |
|
Ethnicity |
African |
9 |
14 |
6 |
2 |
5 |
36 |
Any Other Asian Background |
1 |
3 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
13 |
|
Any Other Black Background |
3 |
10 |
9 |
11 |
6 |
39 |
|
Any Other Ethnic Group |
|
2 |
3 |
|
2 |
7 |
|
Any Other Mixed Background |
4 |
2 |
5 |
1 |
3 |
15 |
|
Any Other White Background |
10 |
6 |
9 |
11 |
11 |
47 |
|
Bangladeshi |
|
|
|
1 |
1 |
2 |
|
Caribbean |
3 |
1 |
5 |
3 |
6 |
18 |
|
Chinese |
|
1 |
1 |
1 |
|
3 |
|
Indian |
1 |
|
1 |
|
1 |
3 |
|
Not Recorded |
31 |
25 |
10 |
13 |
9 |
88 |
|
Not Stated |
1 |
2 |
7 |
7 |
7 |
24 |
|
Pakistani |
|
1 |
|
1 |
1 |
3 |
|
White and Asian |
|
|
1 |
|
1 |
1 |
|
White and Black African |
|
|
1 |
4 |
1 |
6 |
|
White and Black Caribbean |
2 |
1 |
5 |
6 |
3 |
17 |
|
White British |
141 |
187 |
196 |
189 |
129 |
842 |
|
White Irish |
1 |
2 |
3 |
3 |
1 |
10 |
|
Grand Total |
207 |
257 |
264 |
252 |
188 |
1168 |
|
|
Offence Disposal – by Calendar Year |
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---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Offence Category (Crimsec Categories as per HOCR) |
2016 |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
Grand Total |
Assault |
104-Assault without injury on a constable (Police Act offence) |
16 |
12 |
16 |
28 |
17 |
89 |
105A-Assault without Injury - Common assault and battery |
25 |
18 |
30 |
46 |
40 |
159 |
|
105A-Engage in controlling/coercive behaviour in an intimate / family relationship. |
1 |
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
5D-Attempted - Wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm (Indictable) |
1 |
3 |
1 |
4 |
12 |
21 |
|
5D-Wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm (Indictable) |
1 |
5 |
5 |
11 |
6 |
28 |
|
8N-Assault occasioning actual bodily harm (ABH) |
21 |
26 |
13 |
22 |
24 |
106 |
|
8N-Assault with intent to resist apprehension |
|
1 |
|
|
|
1 |
|
8N-GBH serious wound without intent (s20) |
1 |
|
2 |
1 |
2 |
6 |
|
8N-Minor wound without intent (s20) |
1 |
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
8P-Racially or religiously aggravated assault or assault occasioning actual bodily harm |
1 |
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
8S-Assault Police - Assault occasioning actual bodily harm (ABH) (S.47) |
|
1 |
3 |
7 |
6 |
17 |
|
Total |
68 |
66 |
70 |
91 |
82 |
377 |
|
Murder |
1-Murder – Victim aged 1 and over (Indictable) |
|
|
2 |
3 |
1 |
6 |
|
Grand Total |
68 |
66 |
72 |
94 |
83 |
383 |
|
|
|
Offence Disposal – by Calendar Year |
|||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|
Suspect Category Type |
2016 |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
Grand Total |
Age |
Assault |
Suspect age 10 – 18 |
15 |
16 |
14 |
19 |
14 |
78 |
Suspect age 19 – 25 |
18 |
14 |
18 |
24 |
16 |
90 |
||
Suspect age 26 – 40 |
24 |
20 |
32 |
37 |
32 |
145 |
||
Suspect age 41 – 55 |
11 |
16 |
5 |
13 |
18 |
63 |
||
Suspect age over 55 |
|
|
1 |
1 |
3 |
5 |
||
Murder |
Suspect age 10 – 18 |
|
|
|
2 |
1 |
3 |
|
Suspect age 19 – 25 |
|
|
2 |
1 |
|
3 |
||
|
|
Grand Total |
68 |
66 |
72 |
94 |
83 |
383 |
Gender |
Assault |
Female |
12 |
9 |
13 |
11 |
9 |
54 |
Male |
56 |
57 |
57 |
80 |
73 |
323 |
||
Murder |
Male |
|
|
2 |
3 |
1 |
6 |
|
|
|
Grand Total |
68 |
66 |
72 |
94 |
83 |
383 |
Ethnicity |
Assault |
African |
1 |
|
2 |
3 |
2 |
8 |
Any Other Asian Background |
|
|
1 |
|
2 |
3 |
||
Any Other Black Background |
|
|
3 |
5 |
1 |
9 |
||
Any Other Ethnic Group |
|
|
1 |
2 |
1 |
4 |
||
Any Other Mixed Background |
2 |
|
|
|
3 |
5 |
||
Any Other White Background |
5 |
|
|
3 |
4 |
12 |
||
Caribbean |
|
|
|
2 |
3 |
5 |
||
Not Recorded |
5 |
4 |
1 |
|
3 |
13 |
||
Not Stated |
|
1 |
7 |
2 |
7 |
17 |
||
White and Asian |
|
|
|
2 |
|
2 |
||
White and Black Caribbean |
1 |
1 |
|
|
2 |
4 |
||
White British |
54 |
60 |
51 |
72 |
58 |
295 |
||
White Irish |
|
|
4 |
|
2 |
6 |
||
Murder |
Not Recorded |
|
|
|
1 |
|
1 |
|
African |
|
|
|
1 |
|
1 |
||
Any Other Mixed Background |
|
|
|
|
1 |
1 |
||
White British |
|
|
2 |
1 |
|
3 |
||
|
|
Grand Total |
68 |
66 |
72 |
94 |
83 |
383 |