We use some essential cookies to make our website work. We’d like to set additional cookies so we can remember your preferences and understand how you use our site.
You can manage your preferences and cookie settings at any time by clicking on “Customise Cookies” below. For more information on how we use cookies, please see our Cookies notice.
Your cookie preferences have been saved. You can update your cookie settings at any time on the cookies page.
Your cookie preferences have been saved. You can update your cookie settings at any time on the cookies page.
Sorry, there was a technical problem. Please try again.
This site is a beta, which means it's a work in progress and we'll be adding more to it over the next few weeks. Your feedback helps us make things better, so please let us know what you think.
Request
Q1. Between 1 January 2020 and 1 January 2025, how many investigations have been opened into the following offences where the location of the offence was recorded as the Army Foundation College in Harrogate?
5A Wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm 00501 00501 - Wounding etc. with intent to do grievous bodily harm etc. or to resist apprehension
8F Wound / inflict grievous bodily harm without intent 00801 00801 - Wound / inflict grievous bodily harm without intent
8.01 Assault occasioning actual bodily harm 00806 00806 - Assaults occasioning actual bodily harm
8H Racially or religiously aggravated wounding or inflicting grievous bodily harm without intent 00833 00833 - Racially aggravated wounding or inflicting grievous bodily harm (inflicting bodily injury with or without weapon)
8.06 Racially or religiously aggravated assault occasioning actual bodily harm 00834 00834 - Racially aggravated actual bodily harm (assaults occasioning ABH)
8.07 Racially or religiously aggravated common assault or beating 00835 00835 - Racially aggravated common assault
8.06 Racially or religiously aggravated assault occasioning actual bodily harm 00841 00841 - Religiously aggravated assault/assault occasioning actual bodily harm (ABH)
8.07 Racially or religiously aggravated common assault or beating 00842 00842 - Religiously aggravated common assault
8.06 Racially or religiously aggravated assault occasioning actual bodily harm 00860 00860 - Racially or religiously aggravated assault occasioning actual bodily harm
105 Common assault and battery 10501 10501 - Common assault and battery
For each offence, please can you provide the number of investigations associated with that offence - e.g. Common assault and battery = 10.
Extent and Result of Searches to Locate Information
To locate the information relevant to your request searches were conducted within North Yorkshire Police. I can confirm that the information you have requested is held by North Yorkshire Police.
Decision
I have today decided to disclose the following information to you.
Q1. Part of the information you have requested is published on the North Yorkshire Police website under the following link:
FOI Army Foundation College Offences (1264-2023/24) | North Yorkshire Police
I have therefore decided to exempt providing you with a response to pursuant to Section 21 Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the Act). Please see below exemption explanation.
You will note that the above request does not cover the period 1 January to 31 December 2024, and I can confirm that in this timeframe there have been 3 Violence Against the Person offences.
Exemption Explanation
Section 17 of the Act requires North Yorkshire Police, when refusing to provide such information (because the information is exempt) to provide you the applicant with a notice which: (a) states that fact, (b) specifies the exemption in question and (c) states (if that would not otherwise be apparent) why the exemption applies.
Section 21 – Information Reasonably Accessible by Other Means
Section 21 is an absolute class based exemption and I am not required to consider the harm or public interest when applying this exemption.
Pursuant to Section 17(1) of the Act this letter acts as a Refusal Notice in response to your request.
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.