Published items

Provided the annual numbers of recorded dog attack incidents and dog attack incidents resulting in injury between January 2018 and April 2023. Also provided the numbers of recorded reports of dogs causing injury to people with outcome by financial year from 2017/18 up to November 2022.

Provided the numbers of dogs destroyed by year, breed and reason for destruction between 01 September 2020 and 01 September 2023.

Confirmed it is not possible to establish the average response time or percentage of dog bite incidents that are dealt with by a Community Resolution Order (CRO).

Data is provided on the offences recorded by Essex Police under the Home Office code ‘008/21 Owner of a dog allowing it to be dangerously out of control in public place and cause injury'. It is broken down by financial year and outcome type between 2017 and 2024.