Crime Statistics April 2015 to December 2021

Keywords

Crime, Statistics, Male, Female, Murder, Manslaughter, Assault, GBH, ABH, Rape, Theft, Arson, Bicycle, Burglary, Damage, Fraud, Homicide, Society, Sexual, Offences, Possession, Drugs, Weapons, Robbery, Shoplifting, Vehicle, Violence.

Publication Number

PUB 1480

FOI Reference Number

16327

Request Title

Crime Statistics over last 10 years

Date Range

01 April 2015 to 31 December 2021

Information Requested

Under the freedom of information act I would like to know the following information.

1. How many crimes in general have been committed against males and how many against females in your area each year for the past 10 years?

2. How many males and how many females have been murdered / manslaughtered in your area each year for the past 10 years?

3. How many males and how many females have been assaulted (G.B.H, A.B.H etc.) in your area each year for the past 10 years?

4. How many males and how many females have reported being raped in your area each year for the past 10 years?

5. Have you any idea of how many unreported cases of rape there are in your area against males and against females each year. I understand that this may be guesswork as it is difficult to accurately depict numbers on unreported crimes. Guesswork on this question will be satisfactory. Again covering the past ten years. 

Disclosure with Exemptions

Full Refusal with Section 12 Exemption

Information Correct as at

25 February 2022

Date of Disclosure

06 October 2022

Related Documents/Links

Appendix tables: homicide in England and Wales - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)

Published items | Essex Police

Recorded crime figures | Essex Police

FOI 16327 Response

FOI Duty     

First Duty – Essex Police does hold information relating to all of your request.

Second Duty – See below

Fact – Essex Police record information where investigations have either been recorded as homicide, (the unlawful killing of one person by another) or for the older offences, were investigated as homicide.  As investigation’s progress, some may transpire not be homicides but are still recorded as such. 

Exemption – Section 12(1) for questions 1, 2, 3 and 4.

Reasoning

Essex Police changed recording systems on 01/04/2015, therefore this request would entail manually recalling some archived information and extracting some of the requested data.  This process would exceed the time and cost limits under the FOIA and would also 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.  We have therefore not provided information prior to 01/04/2015.

Consequently, Essex Police are exempt from the duty to provide information you have requested under Section 12(1)    of the FOIA. Therefore, and in accordance with Section 17(5) of the FOIA, this communication must act as a refusal notice to provide all the information that could be interpreted as being captured by this part of your request. 

Duty to assist – When refusing a request on cost (Section 12(1)/12(2), outside of the act and in effort to assist we can provide the following information: 

Caveats:

The information provided is correct as of 25/02/2022.

Essex Police are unable to answer question 5, as we are unable to estimate crimes that are not reported to police, however, please see the below link from the ONS which refers to the prevalence of sexual offending:

Sexual offences prevalence and trends, England and Wales - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)

 

Information:

Table shows recorded crimes from 01/04/2015-31/12/2021 

		2015 (from 01/04 to 31/12)			2016			2017			2018			2019			2020			2021
	Female	Male	Unrecorded	Female	Male	Unrecorded	Female	Male	Unrecorded	Female	Male	Unrecorded	Female	Male	Unrecorded	Female	Male	Unrecorded	Female	Male	Unrecorded
ALL OTHER THEFT OFFENCES	3275	2834	48	4292	3792	58	4333	3819	72	4782	4252	123	4541	4183	97	3545	3378	86	4034	3794	110
ARSON	96	122	1	121	161	0	120	176	2	118	139	3	117	168	6	143	171	6	116	131	2
BICYCLE THEFT	438	1340	11	539	1692	19	564	1942	24	494	1719	33	447	1646	29	434	1309	29	374	1079	19
BURGLARY - BUSINESS AND COMMUNITY	0	0	0	0	0	0	134	313	3	120	306	12	105	237	6	94	214	5	53	135	4
BURGLARY - RESIDENTIAL	0	0	0	0	2	0	3263	3583	69	3977	4538	98	3463	3858	94	2606	2873	97	2126	2369	59
BURGLARY - DWELLING	2573	2512	33	3633	3379	66	857	707	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
BURGLARY - NON DOMESTIC	1026	1768	28	1182	1956	31	303	501	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
CRIMINAL DAMAGE	4246	4193	49	5863	5594	61	6093	5634	74	6427	5371	111	6737	5562	110	5675	4695	163	5467	4590	130
FRAUD OFFENCES	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
HOMICIDE	7	15	0	5	10	0	8	20	0	4	10	0	9	48	1	2	15	0	8	16	0
MISC CRIMES AGAINST SOCIETY	298	199	2	420	325	7	688	425	4	944	540	10	1082	704	11	1033	606	15	884	582	13
OTHER SEXUAL OFFENCES	1060	195	4	1459	276	8	1673	364	16	1879	388	33	2138	459	29	2047	451	30	2425	592	69
POSSESSION OF DRUGS	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
POSSESSION OF WEAPONS OFFENCES	25	62	0	35	147	2	51	226	1	65	259	2	59	246	4	40	184	1	38	168	5
PUBLIC ORDER OFFENCES	1931	1567	13	3468	3194	30	4214	4071	47	5504	5019	100	6959	6164	116	7451	6601	155	7941	7079	183
RAPE	672	74	0	964	94	2	1170	119	7	1392	154	9	1801	175	19	1762	182	14	2404	220	33
ROBBERY - BUSINESS	6	14	1	12	20	1	16	26	0	11	39	0	10	33	0	5	17	0	5	37	1
ROBBERY - PERSONAL	142	496	2	215	766	2	258	1031	7	263	1203	9	288	1240	12	243	984	19	219	950	18
SHOPLIFTING	64	102	1	49	76	3	42	62	0	43	74	2	44	67	5	18	55	4	19	50	3
THEFT FROM THE PERSON	849	447	4	995	550	5	1009	486	10	932	566	26	817	452	21	615	349	17	638	367	13
TRAFFICKING OF DRUGS	0	1	1	2	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
VEHICLE OFFENCES	2632	5690	76	3500	7450	106	3403	8543	117	3648	9331	170	3703	9262	172	2967	6744	159	2788	6687	122
VIOLENCE WITH INJURY	4133	4556	32	5769	6481	47	6314	7189	65	6603	7552	89	7250	7854	127	6911	6876	142	7215	7249	177
VIOLENCE WITHOUT INJURY	7561	5282	45	11759	8263	67	14306	10615	89	22061	15072	226	28245	19357	317	29461	20614	525	31692	22711	628
Grand Total	31035	31470	351	44282	44228	515	48820	49852	628	59268	56534	1056	67817	61718	1176	65052	56318	1467	68447	58807	1589

 

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.