Domestic abuse crimes and incidents

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Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 23/5483

Version Date: 13/10/2023

The Performance & Analysis Department have provided the following information:

Data Source:

Force Incident Recording System STORM

Force Crime Recording System UNIFI

Data Processing:

QlikView Incident Report filtered on

Incident date : 01/04/18 - 31/03/21

Closing Sub Class : Domestic Incident

Data extracted to excel

QlikView report Crime Lists Specific Years filtered on

Entered date 01/04/15 - 31/03/21

No Crimes' Excluded

DA flag : 1

Data extracted to excel

Data Limitations:

Data is dependant on accurate use of the DA flag and accurate recording of the district.

Incident data is not available past 01/04/18.

Data on reporting incidents with a closing qualifier of Domestic Abuse:
The number of reported incidents with a closing qualifier of Domestic Abuse breakdown by local authority level and financial year 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21.

Number of incidents reported to Devon and Cornwall Police with a secondary closing class of Domestic Incident, between 01/04/18 - 31/03/21
District	Financial Year			Total
District	2018/19	2019/20	2020/21	Total
Caradon	775	746	853	2374
Carrick	892	822	950	2664
East Devon	1005	878	1216	3099
Exeter	1329	1357	1436	4122
Isles of Scilly	9	8	5	22
Kerrier	1098	978	1198	3274
Mid Devon	616	655	778	2049
Motorway	1	1	1	3
North Cornwall	930	873	930	2733
North Devon	878	795	845	2518
Penwith	709	656	682	2047
Plymouth	3539	3621	3787	10947
Restormel	1218	1206	1226	3650
South Hams	474	466	557	1497
Teignbridge	1078	1027	1051	3156
Torbay	2076	1955	2005	6036
Torridge	509	562	559	1630
West Devon	355	308	347	1010
District Unknown	4	2	2	8
Total	17495	16916	18428	52839

Total number of recorded domestic abuse-related crimes:

The total number of recorded crimes categorised as Domestic Abuse breakdown by local authority level and financial year 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21.

Number of Domestic Abuse offences recorded by Devon and Cornwall Police between 01/04/15 - 31/03/21
District	Financial Year						Total
District	2015/16	2016/17	2017/18	2018/19	2019/20	2020/21	Total
Caradon	481	517	796	900	865	860	4419
Carrick	482	530	754	949	1084	989	4788
East Devon	639	736	999	1161	1148	1204	5887
Exeter	790	952	1478	1568	1644	1691	8123
Isles of Scilly	7	6	5	13	6	3	40
Kerrier	658	679	976	1152	1240	1353	6058
Mid Devon	350	395	584	695	876	740	3640
North Cornwall	467	468	700	897	956	896	4384
North Devon	678	650	1030	1009	1029	994	5390
Penwith	435	388	610	680	697	777	3587
Plymouth	2772	2853	3932	4706	4973	5030	24266
Restormel	670	685	936	1282	1261	1314	6148
South Hams	260	305	459	573	593	622	2812
Teignbridge	649	699	1117	1327	1335	1382	6509
Torbay	1393	1613	2262	2510	2451	2380	12609
Torridge	381	385	518	611	643	580	3118
West Devon	190	221	375	417	339	396	1938
Unknown District	14	18	24	27	27	20	130
Total	11316	12100	17555	20477	21167	21231	103846

For your convenience, I have provided a list of local authorities in your policing area: Plymouth; Torbay; Cornwall; Isles of Scilly; Devon. Suppose local authority-level data is not available. In that case, I request the data at the district level (or any lower-level geographical divisions available in your force, e.g., district, Local Policing Unit, Police Division, Neighbourhood Policing Unit, Policing area, etc.) covered by De

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