Information on arrests for recorded crime offences under the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 is not separately identifiable within the arrests collection held by the Office for Criminal justice Reform. The collection is based on persons arrested for recorded crime (notifiable offences) by main offence group (i.e. violence against the person, robbery, burglary, criminal damage etc.) and at police force area level only.
Information on charging is not collected centrally.
Data from the court proceedings database held by the Office for Criminal Justice Reform on the number of people proceeded against at magistrates courts and convicted at all courts for offences under the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 in London, 2001 to 2005 can be viewed in the following table.
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 Prosecuted Guilty Prosecuted Guilty Prosecuted Guilty Prosecuted Guilty Prosecuted Guilty Bow Street 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 Camberwell Green/Tower Bridge 10 2 7 5 9 3 8 5 11 5 Greenwich and Woolwich 10 4 9 8 8 9 8 5 4 1 Highbury Corner 7 4 1 1 10 0 3 1 5 3 Horseferry Road 3 1 2 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 Marylebone 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 South Western 0 1 0 0 3 3 4 3 9 5 Thames 4 2 14 5 10 5 4 2 4 4 West London 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 4 3 Barking and Dagenham 2 0 2 1 1 1 4 1 1 1 Barnet 4 3 2 2 6 2 7 3 2 1 Bexley 2 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 1 Brent 7 5 2 1 1 1 2 1 3 2 Bromley 2 0 2 3 1 0 2 1 8 3 Croydon 9 5 5 4 10 5 2 1 2 1 Ealing 2 3 1 1 2 1 5 2 2 1 Enfield 2 3 0 1 3 1 1 1 2 1 Haringey 3 2 6 1 3 1 4 4 0 0 Harrow 3 3 3 1 2 1 2 2 0 0 Havering 4 1 2 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 Hillingdon 3 1 7 4 2 1 7 6 4 4 Hounslow 2 1 5 2 0 0 0 0 3 3 Kingston-upon-Thames 2 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 Merton 0 0 2 1 0 0 2 2 1 0 Newham 0 0 1 0 3 2 4 3 3 2 Redbridge 5 3 4 2 4 2 2 1 0 0 Richmond upon Thames 5 2 4 3 4 4 3 1 2 3 Sutton 2 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 2 Waltham Forest 4 2 5 5 3 1 1 0 2 1 Total 97 51 86 52 91 47 82 48 80 47 1 These data are on the principal offence basis. 2 Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used. 3 Prosecutions are counted by date of final outcome in the magistrates court. Guilty figures are counted by the date of sentence in both magistrates courts and Crown courts. Hence guilty figures can exceed prosecutions where they reflect cases of people being Found guilty in the magistrates court and committed for sentence to the Crown court, the two events being counted in two different years. Source: RDS Office for Criminal Justice Reform