FOI 0625-2023/24 - Domestic Abuse Against Females

Request:

Q1. Please provide the following information for the last available 12 months’ data in relation to:

1. All female victims of domestic abuse
2. All female victims of sexual offences

Q2. If you are unable to provide data for all female victims please provide the data for:

1. All victims of domestic abuse
2. All victims of sexual offences

 The information sought is:

 Q3.  In what proportion of cases is the victim’s ethnicity recorded on the police electronic system?

Q4. What is the ethnic breakdown of those victims for whom ethnicity is recorded?

Q5. What is the ethnic breakdown of the population in your force area?

Q6. Please provide a copy of the last publication of information by your force to demonstrate compliance with the Public Sector Equality Duty under the force’s specific duties under Regulation 4, Equality Act 2010 (Specific Duties and Public Authorities) Regulations 2017.

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

I have today decided to disclose the located information to you.

Q1, Q3 & Q4. Please see table below the number of crimes with a domestic flag marker, where a female victim is recorded, for the period 01 September 2022 to 31 August 2023, broken down by self-defined ethnicity.

Self-defined Ethnicity	Total
A1. Indian	14
A2. Pakistani	2
A4. Chinese	7
A9. Any other Asian background	11
B1. Caribbean	4
B2. African	3
B9. Any other Black background	4
M1. White and Black Caribbean	4
M2. White and Black African	2
M3. White and Asian	5
M9. Any other mixed	4
Not Recorded	2066
NS. Not stated	782
O2. Arab	3
O9. Any other	11
W1. British	2725
W2. Irish	11
W3. Gypsy or Irish Traveller	1
W9. Any other white background	84
Total	5743

Q2, Q3 & Q4. Please see table below the crimes relating to sexual offences that are recorded with a female victim, by North Yorkshire Police, for the period 01 September 2022 to 31 August 2023, broken down by self-defiend ethnicity.

Self-defined Ethnicity	Total
A4. Chinese	1
A9. Any other Asian background	3
B1. Caribbean	1
B2. African	2
B9. Any other Black background	1
M2. White and Black African	3
M3. White and Asian	1
M9. Any other mixed	4
Not Recorded	931
NS. Not stated	197
O9. Any other	4
W1. British	563
W2. Irish	2
W3. Gypsy or Irish Traveller	1
W9. Any other white background	16
Total	1730

Please note the results are incomparable as there will be victims of domestic violence where the crime was also Sexual, therefore will show in both datasets. In addition, there may be multiple victims per crime and a victim may also have been a victim multiple times during the 12 month period, the results in the table above count all.

Q5. The information you have requested is published on the Office for National Statistics website under the following link

https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/reports/localarea?compare=E10000023#section_6_4

Q6. The information you have requested is published on the North Yorkshire Police website under the following link

Overview | North Yorkshire Police

I have therefore decided to exempt providing you with a separate response (to question 5 and 6) 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.