FOI 937/26

REQUEST

Possession of weapons (offence codes 00826; 00853; 00861; 08103; 08117)

Handling stolen goods (offence codes 05401; 05402)

Possession of a controlled drug Class A (offence codes 09250; 09251; 09252; 09252; 09254; 09259)

For each of the three offence groups, please provide the following information:

(1)

How many women were arrested for the specific offences in the time period 30 June 2024 up to 30 June 2026?

(2)

How many of the arrested women were flagged with a domestic violence marker associated with their current or former partner, where their current or former partner was the perpetrator of domestic violence?

By this I mean the suspect arrested for the offence (e.g. handling stolen goods) had been flagged with a domestic violence marker where she is recognised as at risk of DVA, either previous to the arrest or following the arrest."

RESPONSE

Question 1

A search has been completed using our crime and incident recording system (Niche RMS) for all arrests recorded between 30^th June 2024 and 30^th June 2026, where the offender gender is categorised as ‘female’ and the Arrest Reason Home Office Code is one of the following:

092/50, 092/51, 092/52, 092/53, 092/54, 054/01, 008/26, 008/61, 054/02, or 092/59. The remaining codes were not searchable.

This search retrieved 211 arrest records.

Question 2

25 out of the 211 females arrested have a domestic abuse and violence flag. However this does not mean the arrest was related to a Domestic abuse incident

Domestic abuse is core police business and we are committed to tackling this crime - from call taking and first response by officers, to the investigation and the subsequent action to protect victims. We believe that working in partnership is essential to ensure that domestic abuse becomes everyone’s business. We work closely with a number of statutory and voluntary sector agencies in South Wales to tackle domestic abuse and the many forms of violence.  

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