Catapult and slingshot crimes 495/2025
FOI Reference: 495/2025
Request
- From 2019 to the most recent data available, how many crimes were logged by your police force where a slingshot was recorded as being an element in the offence? Please provide a yearly breakdown in a table (Note: I would hope that this could be achieved by a computer search on the MO of crimes for the word “slingshot” or synonyms like “catapult”)
- Please provide me with a table showing a breakdown of the crimes from Question 1 that are 'linked' to slingshot/s by its mention in the MO for 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 by offence subgroup as per the Home Office counting rules.
Clarification received
My request refers only to crimes, not incidents.
I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, as outlined below.
Response Q1
|
Year |
Volume |
|
2019 |
3 |
|
2020 |
2 |
|
2021 |
7 |
|
2022 |
4 |
|
2023 |
12 |
|
2024 |
8 |
|
2025 |
2 |
|
Grand Total |
38 |
Response Q2
|
Offence |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 |
2025 |
Grand Total |
|
Criminal Damage |
2 |
1 |
4 |
1 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
14 |
|
Fraud |
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
Possession of Offensive Weapon |
|
|
|
2 |
2 |
|
|
4 |
|
Threaten with an Offensive Weapon |
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
1 |
|
Violence with Injury |
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
Violence without Injury |
|
|
|
|
5 |
4 |
|
9 |
|
Wildlife Incident |
|
|
3 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
8 |
|
Grand Total |
3 |
2 |
7 |
4 |
12 |
8 |
2 |
38 |
It should be noted that as a result of the systems adopted by Dyfed-Powys Police in relation to the recording of such information that the information released may or may not be accurate.
(This is a response under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and disclosed on 27/06/2025)
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