FOI Football Related Incidents (0357-2022/23)
Request
Q1. Within the period of 30 April – 30 May 2022, how many football-related incidents were recorded by your constabulary? By incidents, this could relate to needing police presence due to violent or disorderly behaviour as a result of an individuals, or individuals preparing to watch, watching or having watched a football match
Q2. Within the period of 30 April – 30 May 2022, how many football-related offences were recorded by your constabulary? By football-related offences, this means an offence contained in Schedule One of the Football Spectators Act 1989
Response
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Q1. Within the period of 30 April – 30 May 2022, how many football-related incidents were recorded by your constabulary? By incidents, this could relate to needing police presence due to violent or disorderly behaviour as a result of an individuals, or individuals preparing to watch, watching or having watched a football match
To arrive at the data, for this first part of your request, searches of North Yorkshire Police Systems by use of the keyword “football” have been conducted and the results filtered to remove incidents other than those sought (as clarified by you to include only organised football events where police have been called there as a result of individuals preparing to watch, watching or having watched a football match).
Between 30th April and 30th May 2022 there were three such occurrences recorded by North Yorkshire Police.
Q2. Within the period of 30 April – 30 May 2022, how many football-related offences were recorded by your constabulary? By football-related offences, this means an offence contained in Schedule One of the Football Spectators Act 1989
To arrive at the data, for this second part of your request, searches of North Yorkshire Police Systems have been conducted to locate any disposals for persons under under Schedule One of the Football Spectators Act 1989 which incorporates -
(Home Office Crime Code 66/05)
Admit / permit spectator to be admitted or remain at a designated football match when no licence in force
and
(Home Office Crime Code 125/03)
Contravene a licence to admit spectators
Between 30th April and 30th May 2022 there were no such occurrences recorded by North Yorkshire Police.
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.