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.
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2016 -2017 |
2017 -2018 |
2018 -2019 |
2019 -2020 |
2020 -2021 |
2021 -2022 |
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Dog attacks |
Reported |
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Investigated |
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Dogs seized |
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Charges made |
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Dogs dangerously out of control |
Reported |
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Investigated |
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Dogs seized |
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Charges made |
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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.
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2016 -2017 |
2017 -2018 |
2018 -2019 |
2019 -2020 |
2020 -2021 |
2021 -2022 |
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Dog attacks |
Reported |
5 |
45 |
41 |
46 |
39 |
57 |
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Investigated |
1 |
9 |
7 |
14 |
7 |
10 |
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Dogs seized |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
3 |
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Charges made |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
4 |
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Dogs dangerously out of control |
Reported |
0 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
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Investigated |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
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Dogs seized |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
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Charges made |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |