2024-27225 Corrosive Substance Offences

REQUEST

Under the FOI Act 2000, please provide me with the number of reports for each of these offences broken down by year (calendar) each of 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020 and 2019.

1) Section 6 - Possession of a corrosive substance in public place

2) Section 18 - Wounding or causing GBH with intent with the use of a corrosive substance

3) Section 20 – Unlawful wounding or inflicting grievous bodily harm with the use of a corrosive substance

4) Section 29 – Sending, throwing or using explosive or corrosive substance or noxious thing with intent to do grievous bodily harm (when it is corrosive substance)

If within the time allowed, under each type of offence in each year, please provide breakdown of the corrosive substance where mentioned.

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