Reports of: Owner allowing dog to be dangerously out of control injuring any person or assistance dog.
Date of request: 7 June 2022
Reference: 646/22
Request
- The number of 999 and 111 calls regarding dog attacks made to your police force broken down by (calendar) year for the years 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021.
- Can you tell me the criminal outcomes relating to a dog attack broken down by those same years?
- If there’s time, can you tell me the age of the victims of these attacks, also broken down by these same years.
Response
The data provided relates to the following offence:
- Owner or person in charge allowing dog to be dangerously out of control in any place in England and Wales (whether or not in a public place) injuring any person or assistance dog.
In answer to questions 1 and 2, please see below a table showing recorded outcomes for this offence where the source of the report was either a 999 or 101 call, broken down by year from 2017 – 2021:
| Source 999 or 101 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | Sum: |
| Filed – Incident Report OR CRI | 1 | 5 | 2 | 8 | ||
| New – Under Investigation | 1 | 4 | 5 | |||
| OC01 – Charge/Summons | 19 | 18 | 12 | 18 | 12 | 79 |
| OC03 – Caution – Adults | 3 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 21 |
| OC08 – Community Resolution | 24 | 25 | 43 | 51 | 66 | 209 |
| OC09 – Not in Public Interest (CPS) | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| OC10 – Not in Public Interest (Pol) | 64 | 62 | 42 | 28 | 34 | 230 |
| OC14 – No Sus / Victim Decline | 37 | 36 | 51 | 45 | 45 | 214 |
| OC15 – Sus/Insuff.Evidence | 24 | 22 | 26 | 25 | 31 | 128 |
| OC16 – Sus/Victim Declines | 83 | 107 | 115 | 136 | 89 | 530 |
| OC18 – No Sus / No Line Enq / Filed | 83 | 106 | 117 | 128 | 118 | 552 |
| OC20 – Trnasferred Oth Agency | 5 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 24 |
| OC21 – Investig. not in Public Int. (Police) | 11 | 11 | 15 | 4 | 8 | 49 |
| OC22 – Diversionary, educational, intervention | 39 | 49 | 34 | 122 | ||
| Sum: | 355 | 400 | 468 | 500 | 450 | 2173 |
In answer to question 3, please see below an additional table showing the recorded age of victims in these reports:
| Source 999 or 101 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | Sum: |
| 0-10 | 39 | 55 | 64 | 52 | 64 | 274 |
| 11-20 | 35 | 39 | 49 | 45 | 53 | 221 |
| 21-30 | 41 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 54 | 266 |
| 31 to 40 | 49 | 55 | 65 | 75 | 71 | 315 |
| 41 to 50 | 59 | 57 | 83 | 91 | 59 | 349 |
| 51 to 60 | 63 | 65 | 65 | 76 | 79 | 348 |
| 61+ | 58 | 58 | 67 | 87 | 56 | 326 |
| No Age recorded | 11 | 15 | 18 | 16 | 14 | 74 |
| Sum: | 355 | 400 | 468 | 500 | 450 | 2173 |