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Request reference number: 281
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Summary of request
(a) Domestic abuse
The Met and West Yorkshire (and the National Abuse Helpline) are all reporting large rises in domestic violence.
The BBC (elsewhere) quotes the NPCC explaining that it has not noticed an overall rise.
What is the correct picture?
(b) Antisocial behaviour.
The BBC speaks of an extraordinary rise in ASB. But, it does not seem to have received a proper explanation from any police forces about what has caused this rise.
The BBC seems to have been advised that it's probably best explained by police actions against people breaking the Coronavirus lockdown.
For a whole host of reasons, the nation needs to know, how many people are vandalising, antisicially driving, behaving like traditional hoodlums, (traditional ASB) and separately, how many are breaking lockdown restrictions (and potentially putting the whole nation at deadly risk) Not to mention which forces are the best at enforcing the lockdown.
In short, please can we have two separate figures for these two subjects?
Related documents
FOI Domestic Abuse and Anti Social Behaviour