FOI 606/25 Pallister Park Incidents
Date: 25/06/25
Enquiry Reference: 606- 25
I write in connection with regards to your Freedom of Information request. Below is your request and our response.
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would like to request information regarding the following incidents in the Pallister Park area of Middlesbrough:
- Violent offenses reported on or near Cotswold Avenue Pallister Park between 1st January 2005 and 31st December 2006.
- Off-road motorbike offenses reported in the same area between 1st January 2008 and 31st December 2009.
For each category, please provide:
- The dates of each reported incident
- A brief summary or nature of the offense
- The outcome or status (e.g., charges filed, case closed, ongoing investigation)
If the cost or volume of data is too high, please advise on how best to proceed.
The analyst has searched for all crimes validated between 1st January 2005 and 1st January 2007 of either violence with or without injury and the outcomes recorded against the crimes.
They then added to the search any of the crimes found with an occurrence ward of BERWICK_HILLS_AND_PALLISTER then filtered further to the street name to contain Cotswold.
We do not have the tools for finding ‘near’ to addresses
Below are the results.
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2005 |
2006 |
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Violence With Injury |
2 |
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Violence Without Injury |
1 |
1 |
Off road bikes are not classed as a crime but are noted as incidents of ASB.
The analyst checked for any ASB incidents using the same parameters above but there were Zero.
Below are the outcomes for the violence with or without injury crimes above.
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2005 |
2006 |
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Violence With Injury |
2 |
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B - Detected - Caution, Final Warning, Reprimand |
1 |
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Concluded - All Enquiries Concluded |
1 |
|
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Violence Without Injury |
1 |
1 |
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A1 - Detected - Charge |
1 |
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B - Detected - Caution, Final Warning, Reprimand |
1 |
For each category, please provide:
- The dates of each reported incident
- A brief summary or nature of the offense
- The outcome or status (e.g., charges filed, case closed, ongoing investigation)
Section 1 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 places two duties on public authorities. Unless exemptions apply, the first duty at Section 1(1) (a) is to confirm or deny whether the information specified in a request is held. The second duty at Section 1(1) (b) is to disclose information that has been confirmed as being held. Where exemptions are relied upon, Section 17 of the Freedom of Information Act requires that I provide the applicant with a notice which: a) states that fact b) specifies the exemption(s) in question and c) state (if that would not otherwise be apparent) why the exemption applies.
Cleveland Police can confirm it holds the information relevant to your request as the duty in Section 1(1) (a) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 does not apply, by virtue of the following exemptions:
Section 40(2) Personal Information
Section 40(2) is an absolute exemption which does not require me to evidence the harm that disclosure would cause and does not require consideration of a public interest test in justification of its use.
By way of explanation to you I would point out the following:
Under Section 40(2) of The Freedom of Information Act, information is exempt information if it constitutes personal information of which the applicant is not the data subject. In order to be considered exempt personal information, the information must satisfy one of two conditions. It must either be information which would be exempt from disclosure to the data subject under the provisions of the Data Protection Act 2018, or disclosure of the information would contravene any of the Data Protection Principles or cause damage or distress to the data subject.
In this case, because of the very low numbers to disclose dates and summary, it could be likely to identify the individuals concerned either from that information alone or combined with other information from within the Police Service or public domain.
Such a disclosure would breach an individual's rights under Article 5(1) of the GDPR.
Please note that all statistical data supplied in relation to Freedom of Information requests is a snapshot of data held at the time the request was received by the Freedom of Information office and is subject to constant change/updates.
If you are not satisfied with this response or any actions taken in dealing with your request, you have the right to request an independent internal review of your case under our review procedure. The Freedom of Information Code of Practice (see below link) states that a request for internal review should be made within 20 working days of the date on this response or 40 working days if extenuating circumstances to account for the delay can be evidenced. Public authorities are not obliged to accept internal reviews after this date.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/freedom-of-information-code-of-practice
Yours sincerely
Information Rights Decision Maker