Question follow-through · 20621
Assaults on Police
To ask the Secretary of State for Home Department, how many assaults there have been on police officers in the last 12 months.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 17 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 19 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 27 Dec 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Home Department, how many assaults there have been on police officers in the last 12 months.
19 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Dec 2024
Answer published
Data on the number of police recorded crimes for assaults against police officers is published by the Office for National Statistics as part of their quarterly ‘Crime in England and Wales’ series which can be accessed here: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepo...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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