Acid attacks 1023/2025

FOI Reference: 1023/2025

Request:

For each calendar year from 2019, including 2025 to date:

1)  The number of offences that were categorised as an acid attack or corrosive fluid attack against the person  as per the Home Office/NPCC definition here:

"All notifiable violence against the person and robbery, involving the throwing, spraying or pouring of acid or a similarly corrosive substance onto the body of another with the intention to disfigure, torture, kill or otherwise incapacitate for criminal purposes."

2) For each calendar year, the gender of victim(s) of attacks as specified in question one - ie how many of the victims were male, female or otherwise specified.

3) For each calendar year, the gender of attacker(s)/suspect(s) (where known) in attacks as specified in question one.

4) For each calendar year, the ethnicity of victim(s) of attacks as specified in question one.

5) For each calendar year, the ethnicity of attacker(s)/suspect(s) (where known) in attacks as specified in question one.

6) The outcome of offences specified in question one - ie the number of arrests and convictions.

Response 1:

I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, as outlined below.

Response 2:

I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, as outlined below.

Response 3:

I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, as outlined below.

Response 4

I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, as outlined below.

Response 5

I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, as outlined below.

Response 6

I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, as outlined below.

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.

Furthermore, it should also be noted that Police forces in the United Kingdom are routinely required to provide crime statistics to government bodies and the recording criteria is set nationally. However, the systems used for recording these figures are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the crime 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 17/12/2025)