Incidents associated with Mcdonald’s 973/2022
FOI Reference: 973/2022
Request:
1) Please state how many of the following crimes were alleged to have occurred and recorded by your force as happening inside McDonald’s restaurants in the financial year 2021/22.
Assault offences 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' McDonald'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 McDonald’s restaurants in your police force area with the most alleged/recorded assault offences in 2021/22 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 McDonald’s locations. I understand these will have to be redacted to remove private information.
Clarification:
Clarification was sought from the applicant and in terms of question 3 they were happy to receive a summary of the account of the crime.
Response 1:
I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, the details of which are as follows:
- For the period covering 2021/2022 there was a total of 26 crimes relating to assault at a McDonalds restaurants within the Dyfed Powys police force area.
Response 2:
I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, the details of which are as follows:
|
McDonalds restaurant/Address |
No. of assault crimes |
|
Newtown – Pool road |
8 |
|
Carmarthen – Pensarn |
3 |
|
Aberystwyth – Parcyllyn Estate |
3 |
|
Llanelli – Parc Trostre |
3 |
|
Pembroke Dock – London road |
3 |
|
Welshpool - Buttington Cross Ent |
3 |
|
Grand Total |
23 |
Response 3:
I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, the details of which are as follows:
|
Summary of the account of the crime for question 2 |
Total |
|
A bite, minor injury caused |
2 |
|
A fight, no injuries disclosed |
2 |
|
A grab, no injuries caused |
2 |
|
A punch, injury caused |
4 |
|
A punch, kick, injury caused |
2 |
|
A push, kick & verbally abusive to an individual |
1 |
|
A push, no injuries caused |
2 |
|
A trip causing a fall, no injuries caused |
1 |
|
Assault , injuries unknown |
1 |
|
Assault, minor injury caused |
1 |
|
Headbutt, no visible injuries |
1 |
|
Object thrown at an individual |
2 |
|
Person assaulted after entry refused |
1 |
|
Person hit by another individual, injuries sustained |
1 |
|
Grand Total |
23 |
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 02/10/23)