Crime in schools 2018 to 2023 (FOI)

Request

Please provide the crime statistics for the last five years for schools in your force area by spilt of state, ex state and independent schools.

Please break the information down by the following categories;  assault, burglary (non-domestic), burglary (going equipped to steal), criminal damage, criminal damage (arson), fraud by abuse of position, possession of offensive weapons (non-firearms), possession of a firearm, public order.

Response

Please see the attached Excel spreadsheet for the statistics requested. Please note that Jersey has no ex-state schools. 

Spreadsheet.xlsx

Where numbers are fewer than five, they have been recorded as “<5” in order to protect the identities of individuals. Article 25(2) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) 2011 has been applied. 

Article applied

Article 25 - Personal information

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2005.

(2) Information is absolutely exempt information if –

(a) it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2005; and

(b) its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law.

3)      In determining for the purposes of this Article whether the lawfulness principle in Article 8(1)(a) of the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018 would be contravened by the disclosure of information, paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 2 to that Law (legitimate interests) is to be read as if sub-paragraph (b) (which disapplies the provision where the controller is a public authority) were omitted.