2022/25001 - stalking incidents and protection orders

REQUEST

1. How many incidents of stalking have been recorded in your force area in the last three reporting years for which figures are available? If you do not have three years of data, or if providing three years would take too long to collate, please provide the latest 12-month period for which figures are available. I don't mind whether it's financial years, calendar years, or other 12-month periods.
2. How many stalking protection orders have been issued by your police force in the last three reporting years for which figures are available? If you do not have three years of data, or if providing three years would take too long to collate, please provide the latest 12-month period for which figures are available. I don't mind whether it's financial years, calendar years, or other 12-month periods.
3. How many breaches of a stalking protection order have been recorded in your police force area in the last three reporting years for which figures are available?  If you do not have three years of data, or if providing three years would take too long to collate, please provide the latest 12-month period for which figures are available. I don't mind whether it's financial years, calendar years, or other 12-month periods.

RESPONSE

1. How many incidents of stalking have been recorded in your force area in the last three reporting years for which figures are available? If you do not have three years of data, or if providing three years would take too long to collate, please provide the latest 12-month period for which figures are available. I don't mind whether it's financial years, calendar years, or other 12-month periods.

As stalking is considered a crime the data provided in the table above has been pulled from the crime statistics instead of incidents. There has been a total of 3,196 recorded stalking offences between the years 2019 and 2021.

1. How many stalking protection orders have been issued by your police force in the last three reporting years for which figures are available? If you do not have three years of data, or if providing three years would take too long to collate, please provide the latest 12-month period for which figures are available. I don't mind whether it's financial years, calendar years, or other 12-month periods.

Zero stalking protection orders have been issued in the last three calendar years.

1. How many breaches of a stalking protection order have been recorded in your police force area in the last three reporting years for which figures are available?  If you do not have three years of data, or if providing three years would take too long to collate, please provide the latest 12-month period for which figures are available. I don't mind whether it's financial years, calendar years, or other 12-month periods.

There have been zero breaches of stalking protection orders within the last three calendar years.

Whilst this is a request for applications which have been made to the Court within the period, a significant number of cases have been considered for Stalking Protection Orders. However, given the positive actions taken by Gwent Police during the period, including the swift charging of offenders and their remand in custody and significant safeguarding interventions, the legal basis for an Order could not be made out.