Custody Records Sections 12 and 14
Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FOI/24/006822/W
Version Date: 03/03/2025
The Performance & Analysis Department have provided the following information.
Data Source:
Crime/arrest data from Niche and UNIFI.
Data Processing / Data Limitations / Data:
We are only able to provide arrests for offences under the particular act(s)/sections requested.
For the Public Order Act 2023, section 12 follows from section 11 which lists a variety of offences of interest, some of which are under other legislation. These are included below.
Selections made for the following Arrest Offences (where there have been any):
Q1:
Public Order Act 1986, Section 12:
Incite procession participant to breach a condition - Public Order Act 1986
Procession participant fail to comply with condition - Public Order Act
Public procession organiser fail to comply with condition - Public Order Act 1986
Public Order Act 1986, Section 14:
Incite public assembly participant to breach condition
Q2:
Public Order Act 2023:
Being equipped for tunnelling
Being equipped to lock on
Breach requirement in a serious disruption prevention order
Cause serious disruption by presence in a tunnel
Cause serious disruption by tunnelling
Commit prohibited act under a serious disruption prevention order
Intentionally obstruct officer conducting stop and search without suspicion
Interfere / move / remove apparatus - major transport works
Interfere with access to / provision of abortion service
Interfere with use / operation of key national infrastructure
Lock on to person / object / land to cause serious disruption
Notify false information to police in purported compliance with a serious disruption prevention order
Obstruct undertaker etc of major transport works
Highways Act 1980, section 137:
Wilfully obstruct a highway with a non-motor vehicle
Wilful obstruction of a highway
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022, section 78:
Conspire to intentionally / recklessly cause a public nuisance
Intentionally / recklessly cause a public nuisance
Qliksense "Detainee Management" report, "Arrest Data" page, filtered on:
Arrest Date 15/11/2022 to 31/07/2024.
Data exported.
Arrest Offence searched for the following keywords, to capture the listed offences:
procession
assembly
tunnel
lock
disruption
suspicion
transport
abortion
infrastructure
wilful
nuisance
Additional arrests prior to 15/11/2022 are not routinely captured by this Qliksense report.
Qlikview "UNIFI - Custody Data" report, filtered on:
Arrest Date 01/01/2017 to 14/11/2022.
Chart Builder populated and data exported.
The Offence field was searched for the same keywords as above, to capture the listed offences and other similarly worded offences (data can be freetext in this report).
Irrelevant data removed.
Dates restricted to 1 June 2022 to 31 July 2024 for Q2.
Each arrest is confirmed to only have one relevant offence attached to it.
We are writing to make an amended request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
1) Please could you provide statistical data for arrests under sections 12 and 14 of the Public Order Act 1986 between January 2017 - July 2024 (inclusive).
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Arrest Offence Description by Year |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 (to 31 July) |
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Procession participant fail to comply with condition - Public Order Act |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
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Public assembly participant fail to comply with condition |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Breach an order preventing obstruction of streets during public procession |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
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Arrestee Gender by Year |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 (to 31 July) |
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Female |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
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Male |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
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Arrestee Age Group by Year |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 (to 31 July) |
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18-24 yrs |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
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25-34 yrs |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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55-64 yrs |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
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Arrestee Self Defined Ethnicity by Year |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 (to 31 July) |
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Not stated |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
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White Irish |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
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Arrestee Officer Perceived Ethnicity by Year |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 (to 31 July) |
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Asian |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Unknown |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
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White - North European |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
2) Furthermore, please could you provide statistical data for arrests under (i) s.78 Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022; and (ii) the Public Order Act 2023. Please could you provide this statistical arrest data for the period June 2022 – July 2024 (inclusive).
For every arrest reported, please specify the age grouping of the persons arrested, the gender of the persons arrested, and the ethnicity of the persons arrested.
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Arrests for Offences under s.78 Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 between 1 June 2022 and 31 July 2024 |
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Arrest Offence Description by Year |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 (to 31 July) |
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Cause a public nuisance |
8 |
0 |
0 |
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Intentionally / recklessly cause a public nuisance (recordable) |
3 |
11 |
6 |
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Arrestee Gender by Year |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 (to 31 July) |
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Female |
6 |
5 |
5 |
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Male |
5 |
6 |
1 |
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Arrestee Age Group by Year |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 (to 31 July) |
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10-17 yrs |
1 |
2 |
1 |
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18-24 yrs |
4 |
2 |
4 |
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25-34 yrs |
5 |
2 |
0 |
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35-44 yrs |
1 |
3 |
1 |
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45-54 yrs |
0 |
2 |
0 |
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Arrestee Self Defined Ethnicity by Year |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 (to 31 July) |
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Any other white background |
2 |
0 |
0 |
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Not stated |
0 |
3 |
1 |
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White British |
9 |
8 |
5 |
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Arrestee Officer Perceived Ethnicity by Year |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 (to 31 July) |
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White - North European |
11 |
11 |
6 |
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Q2 (ii) - Arrests for Offences under the Public Order Act 2023 between 1 June 2022 and 31 July 2024* |
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*Please note any data for Q2 (i) is NOT also counted for Q2 (ii) in the tables below. |
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Arrest Offence Description by Year |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 (to 31 July) |
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Interfere with use / operation of key national infrastructure (recordable) |
0 |
0 |
1 |
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Wilful obstruction of a highway (recordable) |
3 |
6 |
2 |
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Wilfully obstruct a highway with an non motor vehicle |
1 |
1 |
0 |
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Arrestee Gender by Year |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 (to 31 July) |
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Female |
2 |
3 |
2 |
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Male |
2 |
4 |
1 |
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Arrestee Age Group by Year |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 (to 31 July) |
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10-17 yrs |
0 |
1 |
0 |
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18-24 yrs |
0 |
4 |
1 |
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25-34 yrs |
2 |
1 |
1 |
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35-44 yrs |
1 |
0 |
0 |
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45-54 yrs |
1 |
1 |
0 |
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55-64 yrs |
0 |
0 |
1 |
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Arrestee Self Defined Ethnicity by Year |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 (to 31 July) |
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Not stated |
2 |
2 |
1 |
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White British |
2 |
5 |
2 |
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Arrestee Officer Perceived Ethnicity by Year |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 (to 31 July) |
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Unknown |
0 |
1 |
1 |
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White - North European |
4 |
6 |
2 |