Boxing day assaults (FOI)Boxing day assaults (FOI)
Produced by the Freedom of Information officeAuthored by Government of Jersey and published on
04 December 2024.Prepared internally, no external costs.
Request
What is the number of assaults recorded on 26th December in the following years?
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
Response
Numbers of recorded assaults for December 26 are shown below. The types of offences include assault of a Police Officer, common assault, grave and criminal assault, and types of sexual assault. These offences occurred on the incident dates requested, rather than the date the incident was recorded.
Where numbers are fewer than five, disclosure control is applied to avoid identification of individuals. Article 25(2) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.
| Year | Number of assaults |
| 2018 | 5 |
| 2019 | <5 |
| 2020 | <5 |
| 2021 | 0 |
| 2022 | <5 |
| 2023 | <5
|
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 2018.
(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 2018; and
(b) its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law
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