FOI 284-2023 / Mar 23 / Corrosive Fluid Offences
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NO: 284-2023
I write in connection with your request for information which was received on 14th March 2023 as follows:
I would like to request statistics that reveal the number of corrosive fluid offences or acid attacks recorded in the Warwickshire area in 2022.
- I would like to request the number of offences that were categorised as an acid attack or corrosive fluid offence between 1st January 2022 and 31st December 2022 inclusive.
- The percentage and or number of said offences mentioned in 1. that were recorded as Violent Offences within the category ‘Violence Against the Person’.
- The age and gender of victims of the said Violent Offences mentioned in
Please accept my sincere apologies for the delay in providing the response to your request and for any inconvenience this may have caused you. Please find the Warwickshire Police response set out below.
When reviewing the information please note that the information was obtained by searching for all offences, recorded between 1st January and 31st December 2022, which have a marker of ‘Use of Corrosive Substance as Weapon’, or where the offence is either ‘Have a Corrosive Substance in a public place’ or ‘Causing explosions or throwing corrosive fluids with intent to do GBH’. For Q2, the resulting records were then filtered to ‘Violence Against the Person’ offences.
Q1 response: 14
Q2 response: 4
Q3 response:
Gender
Male – 4
Female – 0
Age
18 or under – 3
Over 18 – 1
Every effort has been made to ensure that the information provided is as accurate as possible.
Your attention is drawn to the below which details your right of complaint.
Should you have any further enquiries concerning this matter, please write or email the Freedom of Information Unit quoting the reference number above.
Yours sincerely
Freedom of Information Officer
Freedom of Information Unit
Warwickshire Police
PO Box 4
Leek Wootton
Warwickshire
CV35 7QB