2022/25251 - Dog Attacks

REQUEST

For every financial year (April to March) from FY 2016-2017 to FY 2021-2022, please provide the following:

• The volume of dog attacks reported, investigated, dogs seized, and charges made
• The volume of dogs dangerously out of control reported, investigated, dogs seized, and charges made.

RESPONSE

Please be advised: The following data has been extracted from police systems using a keyword search. This meaning that there is not a filter that you are able to apply in order to pull the data. In effect, a manual trawl through all records has been carried out.

To obtain the relevant data a keyword search was carried out. The first part being a keyword search of *dog attacks* for each financial year. The second part being a keyword search of *dog dangerously* for each financial year.