FOI 375/25
REQUEST
Q1: For the years 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 and 2024 the number of offences involving a knife committed at schools?
Q2: For the years 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 and 2024 the number of offences involving a knife at school broken down by offence subgroup as per the Home Office counting rules?
Q3: For the years 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 and 2024 the number of suspects for offences involving a knife committed at schools broken down by age and sex of the suspect?
Q4: For the years 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 and 2024 involving a knife committed at schools broken down by how the suspect knows the victim?
Q5: For the years 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 and 2024 the number of suspects for offences involving a knife committed at schools broken down by age and sex of the victim?
Q6: For the questions above, what method did you use to filter offences down to those committed at schools?
RESPONSE
We conducted a search on our crime and incident recording system (NICHE RMS) using the following Home Office codes within the requested time frame. We filtered the recording address as ‘education’ and further refined this search to ‘preparatory, First, Primary, Infant, Junior, Middle school, Secondary, High school’.
- 8/26- Having an article with a blade or point in a public place.
- 8/27- Possess an article with a blade or point on a school/ further education premises.
- 8/62- Threaten with a blade or sharply pointed article on school premises.
Question 1
|
Year |
Total |
|
2020 |
19 |
|
2021 |
12 |
|
2022 |
12 |
|
2023 |
24 |
|
2024 |
18 |
|
Grand Total |
84 |
Question 2
|
|
Year |
||||
|
Offence type |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 |
|
CR37 Violence Against The Person |
15 |
9 |
7 |
16 |
12 |
|
CR44 Miscellaneous |
2 |
3 |
4 |
6 |
6 |
|
CR45 Crime Related Incident |
2 |
|
|
2 |
|
|
PS10 Concern for Safety |
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
Grand Total |
19 |
12 |
12 |
24 |
18 |
Question 3
|
|
Year |
||||
|
Age |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 |
|
Under 10 |
|
|
|
3 |
1 |
|
10 to 17 |
17 |
10 |
12 |
21 |
17 |
|
18 & over |
|
3 |
|
|
|
|
Not recorded |
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
18 |
13 |
12 |
24 |
18 |
|
|
Year |
||||
|
Gender |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 |
|
Male |
14 |
7 |
11 |
16 |
12 |
|
Female |
3 |
6 |
1 |
8 |
6 |
|
Not recorded |
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
18 |
13 |
12 |
24 |
18 |
Question 4
|
|
Year |
||||
|
Victim |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 |
|
Fellow pupil |
5 |
3 |
4 |
10 |
10 |
|
Teacher |
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
No victim |
13 |
6 |
8 |
14 |
8 |
|
Family member |
|
3 |
|
|
|
|
Total |
18 |
13 |
12 |
24 |
18 |
Please note, the above information was retrieved by manual interrogation into each offence.
Question 5
|
|
Year |
||||
|
|
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 |
|
Under 10 |
|
|
|
3 |
|
|
10 to 17 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
4 |
3 |
|
18 & over |
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
Not recorded |
17 |
9 |
10 |
18 |
15 |
|
Grand Total |
19 |
12 |
12 |
24 |
18 |
|
|
Year |
||||
|
Gender |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 |
|
Female |
1 |
|
1 |
3 |
2 |
|
Male |
1 |
3 |
1 |
4 |
1 |
|
Not recorded |
16 |
9 |
10 |
17 |
15 |
|
Grand Total |
18 |
12 |
12 |
24 |
18 |
Please note, where not recorded is stated, this may be due to data quality issues or may relate to a case there was no victim recorded.
Question 6
As stated on page 1 under response.