Live warrants 352/2024

FOI Reference: 352/2024

Request:

Please release data relating to live warrants for homicide, serious assault, common assault and rape. Please break the information down into category of offence and the month and year the warrant was issued. If the following offence categories aren’t included in the above broader categories please also provide date for them:

Other - violence/person

Section 18 wounding

Section 20 wounding

Section 47 assault

Sexual offence

Clarification:

I'm asking about warrants that are live at the date of the request. The date information is the month/year that live warrant was issued.

 

Response:

I can confirm that there is information held by Dyfed-Powys Police which is outlined in the below table.

Category/Offence	Month Issued	Year Issued
Wounding with intent	December	2008
Common Assault	March March March April April January	2024 2023 2023 2024 2024 2023
Abh / Assault PC	April February April March July	2024 2024 2019 2024 2011
Taking & Making indecent images	July July	2020 2016
Rape	June	2000
GBH	October January	2021 2023

 

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 and disclosed on the 4^th of June 2024)