Domestic abuse with male victims

Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FOI/24/6175

Version Date: 14/03/2024

The Performance & Analysis Department have provided the following information.

Data Processing:                                                  

Crimes recorded on crime information system - NICHE              

Cancelled and Non notifiable crimes excluded                         

Qliksense Report: Occurrence - People Links (all)

Crime Only                                                   

Filtered by date: January 1st 2019 to December 31st 2023   

Offence Groups: All excluding Notifiable Reported Incident      

Domestic Abuse: Yes      

Victim: Yes            

Sex: Male                     

Data Limitations:                                                   

• Please note that there can be more than one victim per offence.
• We have counted the number of offences where at least one of the victims was male.
• It is also important to note that a victim could be victim of more than one domestic abuse offence and will therefore appear in the data multiple times.

Under the Freedom of Information Act, could you please tell me for the calendar years, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023:

The number of domestic abuse offences recorded by police where the victim is male

The number of recorded domestic homicides where the victim is male