FOI 323/25
REQUEST
Reporting off road bikes loud and speeding and dangerous driving up and down Highbury Road, Ely, Cardiff today from 2pm and still going now at nearly 6pm.
Also a group of 3 electric bikes, young men with balaclavas, in black clothing, suspicious behaviour gathering by the green area on Grand Avenue near Charteris Road (see photo below) about 3pm today. Broad daylight.
Is it possible to request the statistics / numbers of reports of these incidents over the last 3 years please to understand the extent of the problem.
RESPONSE
A search has been completed using our crime and incident recording system (NICHE RMS) for all incidents with the Local Qualifier ‘Anti-Social Behaviour’, between 1st January 2022 and 31st December 2024 for Highbury Road, Grand Avenue and Charteris Road, Cardiff.
This search yielded 118 records. Each record has been individually reviewed to only include occurrences involving off road bikes and electric bikes. This search returned 33 such incidents.
Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete however please note that the detail collected to respond specifically to your request is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes, and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when interpreting those data.
The figures provided therefore are our best interpretation of relevance of data to your request, but you should be aware that the collation of figures for ad hoc requests may have limitations, and this should be taken into account when those data are used.