Corrosive substance crimes 307/24

FOI Reference: 307/24

Request:

Under the FOI Act 2000, please provide me with the number of reports for each of these offences broken down by year (calendar) each of 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020 and 2019.

1) Section 6 - Possession of a corrosive substance in public place

2) Section 18 - Wounding or causing GBH with intent with the use of a corrosive substance

3) Section 20 – Unlawful wounding or inflicting grievous bodily harm with the use of a corrosive substance

4) Section 29 – Sending, throwing or using explosive or corrosive substance or noxious thing with intent to do grievous bodily harm (when it is corrosive substance)

If within the time allowed, under each type of offence in each year, please provide breakdown of the corrosive substance where mentioned.

Response:

I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, the details of which are as follows:

1) Section 6 Offences

Year	Number of Section 6 offences	Type of substance used
2019	0	NA
2020	0	NA
2021	0	NA
2022	0	NA
2023	0	NA

2) Section 18 Offences

Year	Number of Section 18 offences	Type of substance used
2019	1	Unknown
2020	2	2 x Unknown
2021	0	NA
2022	3	2 x Household bleach 1 x Cleaning spray
2023	0	NA

3) Section 20 offences

Year	Number of Section 20 offences	Type of substance used
2019	0	NA
2020	0	NA
2021	0	NA
2022	0	NA
2023	0	NA

4) Section 29 offences

Year	Number of Section 29 offences	Type of substance used
2019	0	NA
2020	1	1 x Cleaning spray
2021	0	NA
2022	0	NA
2023	0	NA

                                                                                                           

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 02/04/24)