Weapons-related calls, South Hams

Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FOI/25/008443/W

Version Date: 23/07/2025

The Performance & Analysis Department has provided the following information.

Data Source:

Crimes recorded on crime information system – NICHE

Data Processing:

Qliksense Occurrence People Links (All) Report

District: South Hams

Filtered on Date Crimed: 1 January 2023 - 25 June 2025

Filtered on Offence Group: Possession of Weapons

Filtered on Suspect/Offender: Yes

‘Callout’ has been interpreted as an incident log on the crime information system.

Caveats/Limitations:                                                                                            

No crimes/Cancelled Crimes excluded                                                                           

Devon & Cornwall Police records the Principal Crime, as required by the Home Office Counting Rules. There is no mechanism to record associated crimes separately from that Principal Crime.                                                                                    

Multiple weapons and or weapon types may have been used in a single incident.

There may be more than one offender/suspect linked to a callout.               

Please provide the following data for the South Hams area from 1 January 2023 to the present day:

All recorded weapons-related callouts, including:

Total number of callouts involving suspected or confirmed weapons

75

The type of suspected or confirmed weapon involved in each incident (e.g., knife, firearm, blunt instrument, etc.)

The age of the offender/suspected offender in each case (if known)

Whether the incident led to an arrest, and if so, how many individuals were arrested per incident

There were 36 arrests for ‘Possession of Weapons.’
Three of the 75 incidents led to two people being arrested..

I would appreciate it if the data could be:

Broken down by town or village within the South Hams
Please note, the data in the table below relates to specific towns but also includes often large rural areas within a specific town or parish boundary.

Presented on a monthly basis (i.e. by month and year)