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Thank you for your Freedom of information (FOI) request logged under the
above reference.   

    

The Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) places two duties on public
authorities:     

    

Unless exemptions apply, the first duty (at [1]Section 1(1)(a)) is to
confirm or deny whether the information specified in a request is held.
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has been confirmed as being held.     

However, where exemptions are relied upon ([3]Section 17 of FOIA), there
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a) stating the fact   

b) detailing the exemption(s) in question and  

c) why the exemption applies (if not apparent).  

     

Information Request  

Specifically, would you be able to outline the following:

 

The number of bladed article offences recorded by Essex Police in the
calendar year 2023 in:

• Southend

• Colchester

• Chelmsford

• Basildon

• Harlow

• Clacton

• Rest of Essex

 

Could you please provide the same breakdown for the years 2022, 2021,
2020, 2019, and 2018.

  

FOI Duty   

First Duty – Essex Police does hold information relating to your
request.    

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Fact – Not applicable. 

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Information 

Caveat: This information is correct as at 06.02.24.

 

Bladed article offences 2018-2023 by Created Year and District requested
(where Offence Sub Sub Group is equal to 'Possess of article with blade or
point' or Knife Used flag is used.

Created Year
District 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 Grand Total
Basildon 251 413 628 711 817 652 3,472
Chelmsford 188 276 406 395 471 423 2,159
Colchester 267 371 475 469 556 519 2,657
Harlow 140 232 315 360 376 338 1,761
Southend-on-Sea 314 474 667 766 804 630 3,655
Tendring 182 319 443 433 391 378 2,146
Rest of Essex 1,020 1,331 1,772 1,971 1,964 1,774 9,832
District not recorded 0 6 16 18 17 14 71
Grand Total 2,362 3,422 4,722 5,123 5,396 4,728 25,753

 

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accurate and complete. However, Essex Police systems are designed
primarily for the management of individual cases and not for the purposes
of providing data to answer specific FOI enquiries. Please note although
data can be extracted from a number of sources via database queries, the
results may be subject to inaccuracies. Care should be taken to understand
our return when considering the interpretation or further use of the
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Essex Police trusts that the information provided is of assistance. Thank
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Essex Police have developed a publication strategy, our aim is to reduce
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public to include previous and combined FOI requests together with
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From: Info Rights Freedom Essex
Sent: 30 January 2024 10:02
To: Daniel Rees <[14][FOI #1078464 email]>
Subject: FOI 19679 Bladed Article Offences 2018 to 2023

 

 

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Essex Police will endeavour to respond to your application within 20
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(FOIA).  If a time extension is to be applied to your request, you will be
informed; the reason for the extension will also be provided.      

   

Please note that Essex Police may refuse detailed or multiple requests
that are submitted at the same time, as per [15]Section 14 of the FOIA.
Furthermore, if the information sought is already publicly available, you
may be redirected to our publication scheme:
[16]https://www.essex.police.uk/foi-ai/af/ac... or other
official links, such as the [17]PFCC, [18]Home Office or the [19]Office
for National Statistics   

    

Should you need to contact us whilst your information request is being
processed, please email [20][Essex Police request email], quoting
the above reference, and a member of the team will assist.     

  

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| Essex Police 

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Email: [22][Essex Police request email] 

Address: Information Management Department, Information Rights Section,
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Police website
[23]https://www.essex.police.uk/hyg/fpnessex...

  

 

 

 

 

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