FOI Crimes in Care Homes (0603-2024/25)
Request
Please can you give the following information for the following years 2021, 2022, 2023 and if possible so far 2024.
***I'd like the information for elderly care homes ie those over 65. If you cannot break that down please provide the information for all adult care homes and make that clear***
Q1. How many reports of concerns about abuse/safeguarding have been reported to your force within in adult care home setting? (care homes, nursing homes etc) *In terms of abuse – physical, financial, sexual, neglect. Please break down by the years above and if possible by the type of allegation.
Q2. How many of those reports have resulted in an investigation into the allegations? Please break down by the years above and if possible by the type of allegation.
Q3. How many of those investigations have resulted in charges being brought by the force? Please break down by the years above and if possible by the type of allegation.
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Decision
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Q1. Please see the table below showing the number of crimes reported as taking place in an a care home (offering care to those aged 65+), in the period 1 January 2021 and 9 December 2024, broken down by calendar year and crime type.
Please note that a number of the care homes do not exclusively offer care to over 65s and therefore not all crimes involve residents aged 65+.
Please note that I have excluded ‘flats’ and ‘retirement complex’ from the search criteria.
|
Crime Type |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 |
|
Arson & Criminal Damage |
0 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
|
Burglary |
2 |
1 |
2 |
4 |
|
Fraud |
2 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
|
Possession Of Weapons |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
Public Order Offences |
1 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
|
Sexual Offences |
0 |
3 |
7 |
3 |
|
Theft: All Other Theft |
3 |
4 |
8 |
3 |
|
Theft: Bicycle Theft |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
Theft: Theft From Person |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Violence Against The Person |
13 |
18 |
12 |
26 |
Please also see below table showing the victim injury type resulting from the above offences, broken down by calendar year.
|
Injury Type |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 |
|
Emotional |
4 |
4 |
4 |
5 |
|
Financial |
6 |
9 |
9 |
9 |
|
Physical |
0 |
8 |
7 |
7 |
|
Sexual |
0 |
2 |
4 |
1 |
|
Slight |
4 |
3 |
2 |
5 |
|
None |
8 |
6 |
7 |
12 |
|
Not recorded |
0 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
Q2. All crimes recorded are investigated.
Q3. Please see the table below showing the outcomes of the crimes reported above, broken down by calendar year.
|
Crime Outcome |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 |
|
01-Charged/Summonsed |
1 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
|
03-Caution – adults |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
10-Not in public interest (Police) |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
12-Prosecution prevented – suspect ill |
2 |
5 |
3 |
5 |
|
13-Prosecution prevented – victim/key witness dead/ill |
0 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
|
14-Evidential difficulties victim based – suspect not identified |
1 |
2 |
1 |
4 |
|
15-Evidential difficulties prevent further action; victim supports police action |
3 |
3 |
2 |
2 |
|
16-Evidential difficulties prevent further action; victim does not support police action |
5 |
10 |
5 |
5 |
|
18-Investigation complete - no suspect identified |
5 |
7 |
8 |
4 |
|
20-Action by other agency |
1 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
|
21-No Investigation - Not in public interest (Police) |
1 |
4 |
7 |
10 |
|
NULL (Investigation ongoing) |
1 |
1 |
0 |
8 |
Please note that systems used for recording information are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data. It should be noted therefore that this force’s response to your questions should not be used for comparison purposes with any other responses you may receive.