Government of Jersey

Domestic abuse statistics (FOI)

Produced by the Health and Community Services
Authored by Government of Jersey and published on 27 June 2022.
Prepared internally, no external costs.

Request

I'm writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request some figures around domestic abuse.

I would like a breakdown of how many domestic abuse cases have been reported to police in the last 12 months and I would prefer this to be in the form of a breakdown of figures month by month starting with May 2021.

Response

The number of domestic incidents reported to the States of Jersey Police, as recorded within the Incident Log (ilog) database is as follows:

Number of reported domestic incidents
May 2021	89
Jun 2021	82
Jul 2021	85
Aug 2021	101
Sep 2021	100
Oct 2021	70
Nov 2021	75
Dec 2021	93
Jan 2022	75
Feb 2022	71
Mar 2022	84
Apr 2022	85
Total	1,010

Crime statistics for Guernsey are not held as the States of Guernsey Police is not a "scheduled public authority" as defined by the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011.

Article applied

Article 3 - Meaning of "information held by a public authority"

For the purposes of this Law, information is held by a public authority if –

(a) it is held by the authority, otherwise than on behalf of another person; or

(b) it is held by another person on behalf of the authority.