FOI 316/25 Attacks in Hospitals
Enquiry Reference: 316 -25
I write in connection with regards to your Freedom of Information request. Below is your request and our response.
Please can I ask the following in respect of 2023/24, 2022/23 and 2021/22.
1: How many patients reported suffering physical attacks while in hospitals in your force area over each of the last three years?
2: Please can you break down the figures, e.g. into assaults, indecent and sexual assaults.
- We would not know if the reporting person was a patient, staff member or anyone else in the hospital so the analyst has provided is the volume of crimes recorded validated in the times provided with the MO location description of hospital.
The table below is the volume of crimes per financial year by the crime category.
|
|
2021/2022 |
2022/2023 |
2023/2024 |
|
Other Sexual Offences |
5 |
12 |
12 |
|
Violence with injury |
27 |
64 |
69 |
|
Violence Without Injury |
122 |
168 |
211 |
A further breakdown of crime type is included below.
|
|
2021/2022 |
2022/2023 |
2023/2024 |
|
Other Sexual Offences |
5 |
12 |
12 |
|
17A - Sexual Assault on a Male aged 13 and over |
1 |
3 |
2 |
|
17B - Sexual Assault on a Male Child under 13 |
1 |
|
1 |
|
20A - Sexual Assault on Female aged 13 and over |
2 |
7 |
8 |
|
88A - Sexual Grooming |
|
1 |
|
|
88E - Exposure and Voyeurism |
1 |
1 |
1 |
|
Violence with injury |
27 |
64 |
69 |
|
5D - Assault with Intent to cause Serious Harm |
|
2 |
|
|
8N - Assault with Injury |
22 |
53 |
56 |
|
8S - Assault with injury on a constable |
2 |
5 |
7 |
|
8T - Assaults on emergency workers (other than constables) |
3 |
4 |
6 |
|
Violence Without Injury |
122 |
168 |
211 |
|
104 - Assault Without Injury on a Constable |
27 |
32 |
45 |
|
105A - Assault Without Injury |
90 |
123 |
156 |
|
105B - Racially or Religiously Aggravated Assault Without Injury |
1 |
7 |
4 |
|
3B - Threats To Kill |
4 |
6 |
6 |
3: How many arrests were made and charges brought against the assailants relating to these incidents?
Of the crimes above, the below table contains the volume per year of crimes with a ‘person arrested indicator’ of Yes.
|
|
2021/2022 |
2022/2023 |
2023/2024 |
|
Person arrested indicator |
47 |
56 |
100 |
Of those who had a person arrested indicator of yes, below are the charged outcomes of the crimes. As the requester only mentions charges I’ve omitted any other outcome.
|
Outcomes of those who were arrested. |
2021/2022 |
2022/2023 |
2023/2024 |
|
1: Charged |
23 |
22 |
48 |
|
1: Summonsed/postal requisition |
9 |
12 |
9 |
|
1A: Alternate offence charged |
2 |
3 |
4 |
|
1A: Alternate offence summonsed/postal requisition |
|
1 |
|
Having made enquiries within the Force above is all the information we hold. 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.
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Yours sincerely
Information Rights Decision Maker