School related offences

Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FOI/26/10403

Version Date: 07/09/2026

The Performance & Analysis Department has provided the following information: 

I am requesting the following information about recorded offences connected to schools in your force area. I am requesting aggregate numbers only, no personal data, and no information relating to identifiable individuals or specific incidents.
Please provide figures for each of the last three full financial or calendar years (please state which you have used) where held:

1. Whether your force is able to identify recorded offences by location type - specifically, whether offences occurring at school premises can be isolated in your recording system (for example, via a premises or location flag).

The location of a School can be recorded within the MO Location. 

Data is reliant on correct and accurate data recording. 

The MO Location is manually selected by an Officer and therefore may be missing or subjective. 

2. If so, the number of recorded offences that took place at school premises, broken down by year, and, if readily available, by broad offence type (e.g. violence against the person, possession of a weapon, criminal damage).

A breakdown of the number of offences in their respective offence group, per calendar year, that have taken place at an MO Location which includes the the word ‘school’. 

The figures are for all offences recorded as being on school premises, but they may not necessarily involve pupils at the school or be during school hours.

The year is the date the offence was crimed and not necessarily the year it occurred.

For example: Sexual offences my be historic and reported years or even decades after they happened.

3. The number of recorded offences of assault where the victim was a member of school staff (for example, a teacher or teaching assistant), by year, where this information is held or can be identified.

"Person Occupation at Time" field is reliant on the correct recording of the occupation and a correlating start date to be present, therefore the data can be incomplete. 

There were 2,085 offences, where the offence description included the word assault, where the victim did not have a "Person Occupation at Time" recorded.

4. The number of recorded offences involving the possession of a bladed article or offensive weapon on school premises, by year, where this information is held.

The number of recorded offences, per year, involving the possession of a bladed article or offensive weapon.