FOI 206/25 Crimes in School
Enquiry Reference: FOI 206-25
I write in connection with regards to your Freedom of Information request, firstly please accept my apology for the delay. Below is your request and our response.
1a) Number of violent crimes recorded in schools in each calendar year (separately) from 2014 to 2024.
The below table includes the volume of crimes recorded in the calendar years from 2014 – 2024 which included ‘education’ and ‘school’ in the MO Location Description.
The crime categories included as requested were robbery, violence with injury, violence without injury and weapons possession. I searched for any public order offences but there were no results.
The analyst has highlighted the crime category with the crime types under.
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2014 |
2015 |
2016 |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 |
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Robbery |
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1 |
1 |
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1 |
2 |
3 |
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34B - Robbery of Personal Property |
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1 |
1 |
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1 |
2 |
3 |
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Violence With Injury |
65 |
89 |
74 |
128 |
130 |
76 |
49 |
89 |
169 |
220 |
168 |
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5D - Assault with Intent to cause Serious Harm |
1 |
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1 |
2 |
5 |
5 |
6 |
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5E - Endangering Life |
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1 |
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8N - Assault with Injury |
64 |
89 |
73 |
125 |
129 |
75 |
47 |
86 |
160 |
213 |
158 |
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8P - Racially or Religiously Aggravated Assault with Injury |
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1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
2 |
4 |
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8S - Assault with injury on a constable |
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2 |
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Violence Without Injury |
30 |
81 |
72 |
119 |
121 |
149 |
99 |
141 |
177 |
197 |
168 |
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104 - Assault Without Injury on a Constable |
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1 |
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1 |
2 |
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2 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
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105A - Assault Without Injury |
30 |
79 |
70 |
116 |
115 |
144 |
95 |
136 |
170 |
194 |
161 |
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105B - Racially or Religiously Aggravated Assault Without Injury |
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1 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
3 |
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4 |
1 |
2 |
6 |
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106 - Modern Slavery |
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1 |
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11A - Cruelty to Children/Young Persons |
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1 |
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1 |
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13 - Child Abduction |
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1 |
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3B - Threats To Kill |
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1 |
2 |
2 |
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2 |
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Weapons Possession Offences |
9 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
10 |
14 |
10 |
16 |
21 |
15 |
12 |
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10A - Possession of Firearms with Intent |
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1 |
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2 |
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1 |
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10B - Possession Firearms Offences |
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1 |
1 |
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10C - Possession of Other Weapons |
2 |
1 |
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2 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
4 |
2 |
3 |
1 |
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10D - Possession of Article with Blade or Point |
7 |
4 |
6 |
5 |
7 |
11 |
9 |
12 |
16 |
11 |
10 |
1b) Number of arrests for violent crimes recorded in schools in each calendar year (separately) from 2014 to 2024.
The below was taken from the same crime search above but is filtered for those with is a person arrested indicator of yes.
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2014 |
2015 |
2016 |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
2022 |
2023 |
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Violence With Injury |
3 |
2 |
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3 |
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2 |
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2 |
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8N - Assault with Injury |
3 |
2 |
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3 |
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2 |
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2 |
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Violence Without Injury |
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3 |
2 |
5 |
4 |
5 |
2 |
2 |
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105A - Assault Without Injury |
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3 |
1 |
5 |
4 |
5 |
2 |
2 |
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105B - Racially or Religiously Aggravated Assault Without Injury |
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1 |
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Weapons Possession Offences |
1 |
1 |
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10C - Possession of Other Weapons |
1 |
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10D - Possession of Article with Blade or Point |
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1 |
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2a) Number of knife crimes recorded in schools in each calendar year (separately) from 2014 to 2024.
The volume of crimes specifically recorded as a knife crime per year are as follows. Again, this is using the MO Location Description of Education and school.
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2014 |
1 |
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2015 |
2 |
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2016 |
1 |
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2017 |
1 |
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2018 |
1 |
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2019 |
1 |
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2020 |
3 |
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2021 |
6 |
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2022 |
8 |
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2023 |
9 |
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2024 |
2 |
2b) Number of arrests for knife crimes recorded in schools in each calendar year (separately) from 2014 to 2024.
Those crimes identified above with a person arrested indicator are as follows.
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2014 |
1 |
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2020 |
1 |
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2021 |
2 |
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2024 |
2 |
3a) Number of knife crimes with injury recorded in schools in each calendar year (separately) from 2014 to 2024.
Of those crimes identified as a knife crime as above, those with an injury (Assault with injury) are as follows.
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2014 |
1 |
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2015 |
2 |
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2016 |
1 |
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2017 |
1 |
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2018 |
1 |
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2019 |
1 |
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2020 |
2 |
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2021 |
4 |
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2022 |
6 |
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2023 |
6 |
3b) Number of arrests for knife crimes with injury recorded in schools in each calendar year (separately) from 2014 to 2024.
Finally, as above those specifically identified as a knife crime, assault with injury and includes a person arrested indicator.
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2014 |
1 |
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