FAQ Details
Care Homes - 353/10
Dated: 07 Jun 2011
Date of request: 22/06/2010
Date of response: 29/06/2010
Provision of information held by Northumbria Police made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the 'Act')(FOIA)
Thank you for your email dated 22 June 2010 in which you made a request for access to certain information which may be held by Northumbria Police.
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You asked:
For the past 12 months (22 June 2009 - 22 June 2010):-
Please could I have collated the total number of incidents reported on the Fellgate and Hedworth Estates in Jarrow.
The number of "incidents" relating to care home residents within the Northumbria Police Force.
The number of incidents where residents have been reported as missing/left a Residential Care Home or failed to return when expected. A total number here would be much appreciated if easier. By Care Home I mean any residential accommodation classed as a care home. This cannot be age specific as in only meaning elderly care homes/rest homes. It should include all residential care homes please.
In response:
We We have now had the opportunity to fully consider your request and I provide a response for your attention. Please note this request has been aggregated with your previous request, FOI 285/10 refers, due to cost and time implications.
During the period specified for the estates in the maps supplied by you previously for the Fellgate and Hedworth areas, there were a total of 2,191 incidents reported. Incidents may include such things as silent/abandoned 999 calls, lost property, alarms activated etc.
The following has been compiled after searching the force Incident logging System and using the premises criteria 'Communal Home', which is used on the system to cover the following premises:- Private and Local Authority run Care Homes, Rest Homes, Retirement Homes, Residential Homes, Nursing Homes, Sheltered Accommodation and Family Group Homes.
A total of 6,479 incidents have been reported to the police force wide as having occurred at a Communal Home.
It should be noted that this figure will include a vast range of scenarios ie, fire alarm activated, missing person, problem with an individual at the premises a report of a crime at/to the premises etc.
It is not possible to identify every incident throughout the force area that may have involved a 'resident' from such a home if that incident did not actually occur at their particular Communal Home, for example, if a resident was to become involved in an incident away from their particular Communal Home, that incident report would not necessarily record that they were the resident of a communal home. It is therefore only possible to include the number of incidents reported as having occurred at any one of the homes themselves.
A total of 1,904 incidents where residents have been reported as missing/left a Residential Care Home or failed to return when expected have been reported force wide. This figure has been compiled from the reports of Missing Persons and Unauthorised absences.
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