Knife Crime Statistics

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Dear Cambridgeshire Constabulary,

Please provide:

Yearly incidents of knife woundings for the years ending 2015 , 2014, 2013, 2012
Yearly incidents of knife stabbings resulting in fatality for the years ending 2015 , 2014, 2013, 2012

Please present information in one each yearly column with woundings as first number in cell/column and fatalities in brackets in same cell/column

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Nick de Bois

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Dear Nick

 

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NO: 0074/17

 

In reply to your request for information under the Freedom of Information
Act 2000, received 23/01/17.

 

The Freedom of Information Act 2000 (The Act) requires us to handle all
requests in a manner that is blind to the identity of the requestor.  Any
information released in response to a request is regarded as being
published, and therefore in the public domain without caveat.

 

Request

 

Please provide:

 

Yearly incidents of knife woundings for the years ending 2015 , 2014,
2013, 2012 Yearly incidents of knife stabbings resulting in fatality for
the years ending 2015 , 2014, 2013, 2012

 

Please present information in one  each yearly column with woundings as
first number in cell/column and fatalities in brackets in same cell/column

 

We have completed all searches within Cambridgeshire Constabulary and
hereby enclose your response.

 

Response

 

YEAR No. of incidents where wounding has been caused by a knife
2012 75
2013 64
2014 90
2015 119
2016 106

 

Please find below the figures required in relation to this request about
homicides involving knives in Cambridgeshire

 

2016 - 1 offence

2015 - 2 offence

2014 - 0 offence

2013 - 4 offence

 

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Donna Milton

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Cambridgeshire Constabulary

 

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