FOI.23.004402.D - Female victims of knife crime

Request

I would like to see the data you have for the number of women being injured through knife crime, killed by knife crime, or threatened with knife crime between January 2017 - December 2022.

If you would be able to provide this data with the month, year, number of female victims and the type of knife crime in the area policed by Humberside Police.

The Freedom of Information Act requires that this request is dealt with in a manner that is motive and applicant blind. A disclosure under this legislation is considered a disclosure to the world and is considered to be on the basis that it is in the public interest.

This response is unique to Humberside Police and you are advised not to compare this like for like with any other force’s response you receive.

Response

Please find the document attached. Kindly note that we only hold data as far back as 2019.

Regarding the distinction between ‘injured through knife crime’, ‘killed by knife crime’, or ‘threatened with knife crime’, it has been advised that it is not possible to retrieve this part of your request within the ‘appropriate limit’ (18 – hours). This is because the information that you are requesting is not stored in a way which permits easy retrieval and would require manually reading through each MO. Therefore, S12 of the Act applies.

Section 12 – Exemption where cost of compliance exceeds the appropriate limit. s1(1) does not oblige a public authority to comply with a request for information if the authority estimates that the cost of complying with the request would exceed the ‘appropriate limit’ (18 – hours).

Activities that may be counted within our time estimations are:
• Determining if the information is held;
• Locating the information, or a document containing it;
• Retrieving the information, or a document containing it; and
• Extracting the information from a document containing it.

The following have not been included within our calculations:
• The time spent identifying information to be exempted
• The time dedicated to the process of redaction.

Please take this as a refusal notice in accordance with section 17(5) of the Act which states; A public authority which, in relation to any request for information, is relying on a claim that section 12 or 14 applies must, within the time for complying with section 1(1), give the applicant a notice stating that fact.

If you require any further information, please do not hesitate to contact us at [email protected] or 01482 578662.

Yours sincerely,

Information Governance Unit Humberside Police

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