Assaults in sports shops 543/2025

FOI Reference: 543/2025

Request:

1) Please state for the calendar year 2024 how many of the following crimes were alleged to have occurred and were recorded by your force as happening in a) Sports Direct and b) JD Sports shops:

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 involved members of the public assaulting employees of Sports Direct or JD Sports within store premises.

The data should be broken down by whether the assault happened in Sports Direct or JD Sports.

2) In addition, please provide me with a verbatim copy of the “investigation summary field” and/or the modus operandi (MO) for the 10 most recent cases. I understand these will have to be redacted to remove private information.

Response:

I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does not hold the information requested, this is due to the fact that no records were found relating to the above questions.                                               

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 29/05/2025)