Nando's Crimes 354/23

FOI Reference: 354/2023

Request:

1) Please tell me how many of the following crimes were alleged to have occurred and recorded by your force as happening inside Nando's restaurants in the calendar years a) 2021 and b) 2022.

To include all assault offences

5D - Assault with intent to cause serious harm
8N - Assault with injury
8P - Racially or religiously aggravated assault with injury
105A - Assault without injury
105B - Racially or religiously aggravated assault without injury

Please note I am only interested in assaults which occurred inside the restaurants' premises. To clarify, an assault that was recorded as having happened 'down the road from' Nando's would not be of interest, although one that happened inside the restaurant or at least in the doorway/entrance would be.

2) In addition, please state the addresses of the THREE Nando’s restaurants in your police force area with the most alleged/recorded assault offences between 2021 and 2022 on their premises, stating how many incidents occurred for each one.

3) In addition, please provide me with a verbatim copy of the “investigation summary field” and/or the modus operandi (MO) for the FIVE most recent cases recorded for each of the top three Nando’s locations. I understand these will have to be redacted to remove private information.

Response 1 – 3:

I can confirm that there is no information held/recorded by Dyfed-Powys Police as there have been zero (0) crimes relevant to your above request for the period covering 2021 – 2022.

It should be noted that owing to the systems adopted by Dyfed-Powys Police in relation to the recording of such matters the information provided may or may not be accurate. Police Forces in the United Kingdom are routinely required to provide crime statistics to government bodies and the recoding criteria is set nationally.  However, the systems used for recording these figures are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data.  It should be noted that for these reasons this Force’s response to your questions should not be used for comparison purposes with any other response you may receive.           

(This is a response under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and disclosed on 09/05/23)