FOI Reference: FOI/2022/4165
You asked
Number of assaults on Special Constables for the year ending March 2021 in England and Wales.
I understand according to "Crime in England and Wales" statistics that there were almost 37,000 assaults on police officers in England and Wales of which;
25,734 were crimes of "assault without injury on a constable"
11,235 crimes of "assault with injury on a constable"
I would like to know how many of these, as a figure or a percentage were on Special Constables.
We said
Thank you for your query.
Unfortunately, we are do not hold data on what percentage of assaults were against Special Constables.
Police recorded crime data is provided to us by the Home Office, who collect it from individual police forces. A combination of methods is used to provide this data including health and safety systems and recorded incidents. They may be able to provide more help and can be found at CrimeandPoliceStats@homeoffice.gov.uk.