Racially Aggravated Offences
Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FOI/24/007022/C
Version Date: 07/10/2024
How many non white people were arrested for racially aggravated offences as defined by s.29-32 Crime Disorder Act 1988 in Devon and Cornwall in the calendar year from 2023-24.
The Performance & Analysis Department have provided the following information.
Time Frame for data:
01/01/2023 - 10/09/2024
Data Source:
Force Crime Recording System Niche
Data Processing:
QlikSense report Detainee Management filtered on
Arrest date: 01/01/2023 - 10/09/2024
Ethnic Appearance:
Arabic or North African
Asian
Black
Unknown
Chinese,Japanese,SE Asian
Arrest Offence:
Racially / Religiously aggravated harassment without violence (recordable)
Racially / religiously aggravated intentional harassment / alarm / distress - words / writing (recordable)
Racially / religiously aggravated fear / provocation of violence by words / writing (recordable)
Racially / religiously aggravated common assault / beating (recordable)
Racially / religiously aggravated harassment with fear of violence (recordable)
Racially / religiously aggravated harassment / alarm / distress by words / writing (recordable)
Racially / religiously aggravated criminal damage (recordable)
Racially / religiously aggravated assault occasioning actual bodily harm (recordable)
Data extracted to excel
Data Limitations:
- Data is dependant upon accurate recording of detainee's ethnic appearance
- An individual can be arrested for the same offence (or selection of offences) multiple times during any given time frame. For the purposes of this data, each individual has been counted once per year.
- As the offences are recorded as ‘Racially / Religiously aggravated’, each offence has been read for relevance.
|
Detainee's ethnic appearance |
2023 |
2024 |
Total |
|
Arabic or North African |
1 |
1 |
2 |
|
Asian |
0 |
2 |
2 |
|
Black |
4 |
4 |
8 |
|
Chinese,Japanese,SE Asian |
1 |
0 |
1 |
|
Unknown |
3 |
1 |
4 |
|
Total |
9 |
8 |
17 |