FOI 1042-2025/26- ncidents involving residents of asylum accommodation
Request:
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I request the following recorded information held by your force in relation to police incidents at asylum accommodation sites.
This request is strictly limited to the 2025 calendar year and to existing, aggregated data only, in order to remain within the Section 12 cost limit.
Q1 - Incidents involving residents of asylum accommodation (excluding protests) For the period 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2025, please provide:
The total number of recorded police incidents at asylum accommodation sites Excluding incidents primarily attributed to protests, demonstrations, or public-order events involving non-residents
This should be based only on existing markers, such as:
- incident type classifications
- subject/offender descriptors
- location-based coding
- flags already used internally
- No manual review of narratives is requested.
Q2 - Incident breakdown (aggregate only) Where held in an existing reportable format, please provide an aggregate breakdown of the incidents above by high-level category, for example:
- Violence against the person
- Sexual offences
- Criminal damage
- Public order (non-protest related)
- Weapons offences
- Drug offences
- Safeguarding / welfare
- Other notifiable offences
Q3 - Arrests and outcomes (aggregate)
For the same 2025 period and same non-protest scope, please provide:
- Total number of arrests arising from these incidents
- Total number of cases submitted to the CPS
Aggregate totals only.
Q4 - Recording and filtering clarification (existence only)
Please confirm:
a) Whether your force records or flags whether an incident at asylum accommodation is:
- resident-related; or
- protest/demonstration-related
- b) Whether such a distinction is:
- held in a structured field
- searchable without manual review and
- available for reporting purposes.
If no such distinction exists, please confirm this explicitly.
Clarifications
I am not requesting:
- individual case details
- names or personal data
- narrative logs
- manual file review
- protest-related incidents
This request concerns migrant/resident-related incidents only, using data already held.
Response:
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
The information you have requested is published on the North Yorkshire Police website under the following link
FOI 0942-2025/26- Police incidents linked to asylum accommodation | North Yorkshire Police
I have therefore decided to exempt providing you with a response to your request pursuant to Section 21 Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the Act).
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.