Domestic violence 375/2026

FOI Reference: 375/2026

Request:

Could you please provide each of the following for the last 5 years, broken down by county, (Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion and Powys).

1. Domestic Violence Callouts: Please provide the annual number of domestic violence–related calloutsrecorded by Dyfed‑-Powys Police
2. Recorded Domestic Violence Offences: Please provide the annual number of recorded domestic violence offences
3. Domestic Violence Unit Staffing: Please provide the number of police officers and staff assigned to domestic violence units or teams

Clarification Q:

1. When you state “ Domestic Violence callouts” Are you referring to 999/101 calls received
2. Are you referring to incidents or crimes?Please note an incident is different from a crime.  An incident is a record of contact made to a police force by an individual/member of public (usually via a 999 or 101 call) and a crime is where the threshold has been met for the police force to deem that a criminal offence has occurred as defined by law.

Clarification A:

When I referred to callouts I was interested in any reports made. I think by your description incidents would be the correct term. So I would like a breakdown of incidents please

For the second question can you please provide a breakdown of crimes.

Response 1:

I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, as outlined below. Please note that two different systems have been researched to obtain the following data:

For your information, calls for attendance to incidents are broken down into 4 gradings according to the urgency of the calls.

Grade 1 & 2 calls are the most urgent which would elicit police attendance in person.

Grade 3 calls - domestic related, can be not urgent or historic and can be dealt with over the phone. Only some of these incidents would require a police officer to attend in person (which cannot be distinguished on the system to narrow down which incidents officers did go to).

Grade 4 incidents are those of repeat calls that are being dealt with on a separate log or are incidents that are involving incidents in another force area, that are reported by people who may be living or staying in our area, and the logs would then be transferred to the appropriate force to deal with. This grading also would not require a police response from Dyfed Powys Police.

Given this information, the department collating the information has provided ‘DV call outs’ where there was a physical police attendance to a domestic incident.

In 2021 - 7276 Grade 1&2 incidents.

In 2022 - 7496 Grade 1&2 incidents.

In 2023 - 7373 Grade 1&2 incidents.

In 2024 - 6766 Grade 1&2 incidents.

In 2025 - 6862 Grade 1&2 incidents.

The department that provides the crime data has provided the following information:

Incidents cannot be differentiated between domestic abuse and domestic violence, therefore these are all domestic incident volumes, where the final call type was recorded as `Cri-Domestic’:

2021 – 13,434

2022 – 14,404

2023 – 15,019

2024 – 14,894

2025 – 15,750

Response 2:

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

Please note that the following volumes do not include only violent crimes, rather they are all domestic-related. This is to ensure consistency between the two answers provided, as the incidents (2^nd response in Q1) cannot be differentiated between domestic abuse and domestic violence. However, if you wish to submit a more precise request the department have stated that they can provide the volume of domestic-related violence against the person offences if required.

Volume of domestic-related crimes:

2021 – 6,035

2022 – 6,508

2023 – 5,953

2024 – 6,651

2025 – 6,512

Response 3:

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

16 Domestic Abuse Virtual Response Unit (DAVRU) officers in Force.      

(This is a response under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and disclosed on 30/04/2026)