Numbers of Essex Police Officers Assaulted 2021 and 2022
Keywords:
Officers, Assaulted, Offence, Assault, Injury, Bodily, Harm, Wounding, Intent, Resist, Prevent, Arrest., Beating, Grievous, GBH, Malicious, Inflicting.
Publication Number:
PUB 1463
FOI Reference Number:
17376
Request Title:
Numbers of Essex Police Officers Assaulted 2021 and 2022
Date Range:
2021 and 2022
Information Requested:
- The total number of offences where Essex Police Officers were assaulted per year during 2021 and 2022
- The breakdown of the above figures per offence type ("Assault Police - Assault with Injury - Assault occasioning actual bodily harm", "Assault Police - Wounding with intent to resist/prevent arrest", etc) per year during 2021 and 2022.
Supplementary Clarification:
Could I please have the figures for the calendar year 2021 plus (separately) 2022 to date.
Disclosure with Exemptions:
Full Disclosure
Information Correct as at:
10 August 2022
Date of Disclosure:
22 August 2022
Related Documents/Links:
N/A
FOI 17376 Response:
FOI Duty
First Duty – Essex Police does hold information relating to all of your request.
Second Duty – See below
Fact – See below
Exemption – Not applicable
Essex Police can report as follows:
Caveat: The data is correct as at 10/08/2022.
The following table sets out the total types of offences per year with a full breakdown:
|
Offence |
2021 |
2022 (to 31/07) |
|
Assault or assault by beating of a constable |
1051 |
616 |
|
Assault Police - Assault with Injury - Assault occasioning actual bodily harm |
250 |
124 |
|
Assault Police - Assault with Injury - Malicious wounding: wounding or inflicting grievous bodily harm (Minor wound or equivalent) |
2 |
0 |
|
Assault Police - Assault with Injury - Malicious wounding: wounding or inflicting grievous bodily harm (Serious wound or equivalent) |
4 |
0 |
|
Assault Police - Assault with Intent to cause Serious Harm - Wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm |
8 |
1 |
|
Assault Police – Cause GBH with intent to resist/prevent arrest. |
1 |
1 |
|
Assault Police - Wounding with intent to resist/prevent arrest |
4 |
0 |
|
Assault without injury on a constable (Police Act offence) |
79 |
76 |
|
Attempted - Assault or assault by beating of a constable |
2 |
4 |
|
Attempted - Assault Police - Assault with Injury - Assault occasioning actual bodily harm |
1 |
0 |
|
Attempted - Assault Police - Assault with Injury - Malicious wounding: wounding or inflicting grievous bodily harm (Serious wound or equivalent) |
0 |
1 |
|
Attempted - Assault Police - Assault with Intent to cause Serious Harm - Wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm |
7 |
3 |
|
Attempted - Assault Police - Cause GBH with intent to resist/prevent arrest. |
1 |
0 |
|
Grand Total |
1410 |
826 |
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.
Please note the following link from our publication scheme which provides the data for the years 2005 to 2020:
Officer Assaults - Offences 2005 to 2020 | Essex Police
Also other related articles on Assaults on Police Officers:
Published items | Essex Police
You may also find the below link of interest:
Annex: Statistics on the number of police officers assaulted in the year ending March 2021, updated 30 March 2022, England and Wales - GOV.UK (Annex: Statistics on the number of police officers assaulted in the year ending March 2021, England and Wales - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)