FOI 70/26 Incidents at Asylum Accommodation
Date: 11/02/26
Enquiry Reference: 70- 26
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 request the following recorded information held by your force in relation to police incidents at asylum accommodation sites.
This request is strictly limited to the 2025 calendar year and to existing, aggregated data only, in order to remain within the Section 12 cost limit.
Q1 - Incidents involving residents of asylum accommodation (excluding protests) For the period 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2025, please provide:
The total number of recorded police incidents at asylum accommodation sites Excluding incidents primarily attributed to protests, demonstrations, or public-order events involving non-residents
This should be based only on existing markers, such as:
- incident type classifications
- subject/offender descriptors
- location-based coding
- flags already used internally
- No manual review of narratives is requested.
Q2 - Incident breakdown (aggregate only) Where held in an existing reportable format, please provide an aggregate breakdown of the incidents above by high-level category, for example:
- Violence against the person
- Sexual offences
- Criminal damage
- Public order (non-protest related)
- Weapons offences
- Drug offences
- Safeguarding / welfare
- Other notifiable offences
Q3 - Arrests and outcomes (aggregate)
For the same 2025 period and same non-protest scope, please provide:
- Total number of arrests arising from these incidents
- Total number of cases submitted to the CPS
Aggregate totals only.
Q4 - Recording and filtering clarification (existence only)
Please confirm:
- a) Whether your force records or flags whether an incident at asylum accommodation is:
- resident-related; or
- protest/demonstration-related
- b) Whether such a distinction is:
- held in a structured field
- searchable without manual review and
- available for reporting purposes.
If no such distinction exists, please confirm this explicitly.
Answer
No Information Held. There isn’t an existing marker to identify these types of accommodation.
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