FOI Request
- Disclosure ID
- FOI/03318
- Request Date
- September 13, 2019
- Subject
- Violent Incidents
- Description
Please can you tell me how many violent incidents against staff at the trust’s A&E departments have been recorded each year over the past five years.
Please include the nature of the violence (e.g. verbal, physical), whether the police were called and what action was taken against the perpetrator.
- Response
Financial Year Cause 1 Total Police involved Non Physical 23 Physical 19 2014-15 Total 42 12 Cause 1 Total Police involved Non Physical 11 Physical 22 2015-16 Total 33 13 Cause 1 Total Police involved Non Physical 16 Physical 27 2016-17 Total 43 11 Cause 1 Total Police involved Non Physical 23 Physical 14 2017-18 Total 37 11 Cause 1 Total Police involved Non Physical 23 Physical 15 2018-19 Total 38 9 Our Trust does not hold contemporaneous records of police action for the the following reasons:
- Police Action taken is taken after the event
- We are not consistently informed of what police action has been taken