Request
A
Statistics please for numbers of people who have been seen at Accident and Emergency (A&E) for knife wounds for the years 2008 to date.
B
Statistics please for the number of individuals who have been charged with a knife crime from 2008 to date.
C
Statistics please as to whether these individuals are Jersey born or of any other place of birth.
Response
A
The Emergency Department do not specifically record knife wounds but do report stabbings to the States of Jersey Police. These will be contained in the table below.
B and C
The table below shows assaults where the offender possessed a knife. The knife may not have been used in each case.
Numbers less than five have been shown as <5. Disclosure control has been applied to the data in order to protect the identity of individuals, in accordance with Article 25 (Personal Information) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011.
| Offence | POB of offender | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | Total |
| Common assault | Jersey | 5 | 0 | <5 | 8 | <5 | 5 | 8 | <5 | <5 | <5 | <5 | 38 |
| Elsewhere | <5 | <5 | 7 | 6 | 10 | 5 | <5 | <5 | <5 | <5 | <5 | 43 |
| Grave & criminal assault | Jersey | 11 | 13 | 7 | 11 | 13 | 11 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 102 |
| Elsewhere | 6 | 8 | 18 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 94 |
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.
