Bournemouth Airport Arrests
Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FIN/25/003476/L
Version Date: 11/08/2025
The number of arrests at Bournemouth Airport since 2022, detailing what these arrests were for, including both border control and on-site incidents.
The Performance Analysis Department has provided the following information.
Searches were completed on the Niche Custody database for arrests at postcode BH23 6SE.
These searches resulted in 42 individual arrests relating to 59 offences.
Please note arrests made at airports are largely for offences that occur elsewhere. The arrests are generally triggered when the individual attends the airport for arrival/departure and their details are checked and indicate they are wanted for an offence.
| Offence | Count |
| Aggravated trespass - fail to leave land (recordable) | 1 |
| Apply / administer / attempt / cause to be taken a drug with intent to commit an indictable offence (recordable) | 1 |
| Assault a person thereby occasioning them actual bodily harm (recordable) | 1 |
| Assault by beating (recordable) | 2 |
| Attempt burglary dwelling with intent to steal (recordable) | 1 |
| Behave in threatening, abusive, insulting or disorderly manner towards a member of aircraft crew | 1 |
| Blackmail (recordable) | 1 |
| Burglary dwelling - with intent to steal (recordable) | 1 |
| Criminal damage to property valued under £5000 (recordable) | 1 |
| Driver of a motor vehicle alleged to have driven dangerously / carelessly fail to provide name / address | 1 |
| Drunk and disorderly in a public place (recordable) | 1 |
| Engage in controlling / coercive behaviour in an intimate / family relationship (recordable) | 2 |
| Enter United Kingdom lawfully without leave but remain beyond time limit (recordable) | 1 |
| Fail to produce documents - immigration (recordable) | 1 |
| Fail to surrender to police / court bail at the appointed time (recordable) | 8 |
| Failure to comply with court order | 1 |
| Harassment without violence (recordable) | 1 |
| Immigration - enter / remain in UK beyond time limit (recordable) | 3 |
| Intentional strangulation (recordable) | 2 |
| Possess a controlled drug of Class A - Other (recordable) | 1 |
| Possess a dangerous article in any air navigation installation - Aviation Security Act 1982 (recordable) | 1 |
| Rape a girl under 13 (recordable) | 1 |
| Rape a woman 16 years of age or over - SOA 2003 (recordable) | 3 |
| Send communication / article of an indecent / offensive nature (recordable) | 1 |
| Sexual assault on a female (recordable) | 1 |
| Stalking without fear / alarm / distress (recordable) | 1 |
| Subject of a Football Banning Order fail to comply with a section 19(2) requirement (recordable) | 1 |
| Threaten to share photograph or film of person in intimate state (recordable) | 1 |
| Threats to kill (recordable) | 2 |
| WARRANT | 15 |
| Grand Total | 59 |