Bristol and Bath Cycle Path 2024
Date of request: 19 January 2025
Reference: 096/25
Request
Please break the data down by year (2023 and 2024).
- How many offences have been reported along the Bristol and Bath railway path in that time?
- Please specify the type of offence (robbery, GBH, sexual assault, etc), month, time of day and ideally location.
- Also in the breakdown, specify the outcome of the offence (if anyone was arrested/charged etc).
Response
Data for 2023 was released to you on 28 February 2024 under FOI reference number 168/24. It has not been re-produced here.
For consistency, we have run the same parameters and presented this in the same way for this request as 168/24.
Avon and Somerset Police have searched the crime recording database for the location of Bristol & Bath Cycle Path for the time frame of 2024. The following data has been identified.
Q1 and 2
| 2024 | |||
| Robbery | Robbery – Business Property | 1 | |
| Robbery | Robbery – Personal Property | 3 | |
| Sexual Offences | Exposure | 2 | |
| Violence Against The Person | Assault occasioning actual bodily harm | 2 | |
| Violence Against The Person | Common assault and battery | 4 | |
| Sum: | 12 | ||
Month data is as follows:
| Month – 2024 |
| April |
| June |
| July |
| September |
| October |
| November |
| December |
Time data is as follows:
| 2024 | |
| 04:40 | 1 |
| 10:30 | 1 |
| 14:08 | 1 |
| 15:55 | 1 |
| 17:00 | 1 |
| 17:40 | 1 |
| 17:59 | 1 |
| 19:20 | 2 |
| 21:00 | 1 |
| 21:05 | 1 |
| 23:20 | 1 |
| Sum: | 12 |
Location Data is as follows:
| 2024 | |
| BRISTOL & BATH CYCLE PATH, BRISTOL, | 1 |
| BRISTOL & BATH CYCLE PATH, Bristol and bath cycle path, BRISTOL, | 1 |
| BRISTOL & BATH CYCLE PATH, BRISTOL & BATH CYCLE PATH, BRISTOL, | 3 |
| BRISTOL & BATH CYCLE PATH, BRISTOL TO BATH CYCLE TRACK, BRISTOL, | 2 |
| Bristol & Bath Cycle Path, Newbridge, BATH, | 1 |
| Bristol & Bath Cycle Path, Staple Hill, BRISTOL, | 1 |
| BRISTOL & BATH CYCLE PATH, (TUNNEL) BRISTOL, | 3 |
| Sum: | 12 |
Question 3
| 2024 | |
| New – Under Investigation | 2 |
| OC14 – No Sus / Victim Decline | 2 |
| OC15 – Sus/Insuff.Evidence | 1 |
| OC18 – No Sus / No Line Enq / Filed | 7 |
| Sum: | 12 |
Within the above response, month, time and location data has been provided separately. This is because to provide all the information together as you have asked would identify personal information. The exemption applicable to this is;
- Section 40(2), third party personal information.
This is an Absolute exemption so therefore there is no requirement to conduct a harm or public interest test. Any information is exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act if it relates to or is supplied by another individual and disclosure of that information would contravene any of the data protection principles set out in:
(a) Article 5(1) of the GDPR, and
(b) Section 34(1) of the Data Protection Act 2018;
A Freedom of Information Disclosure is a disclosure to the world. Therefore information that is provided can be viewed by any member of the public. To provide the information together as you have requested may have severe consequences. For example, an individual may be identified by another member of the public. Alternatively an individual could identify themselves, and be aware that their personal data has been used unlawfully.
Should the information be provided in a format in which a living individual could be identified this would constitute personal data. This would then become a breach of rights provided under the Data Protection Act 2018. Information held on an individual by Avon and Somerset Constabulary is done so lawfully and is used for a policing purpose in line with the principles set out in the GDPR. Our privacy policy can be viewed here.
This serves as a partial refusal notice under section 17(1) of the FOI Act.