Football Match Arrests
Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FIN/25/002928/O
Version Date: 13/03/2025
I would like to know how many arrests Dorset Police made during football match operations in the last ten full seasons (which run August-May) - 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24 - at the following stadium:
- Dean Court, currently known as the Vitality Stadium
Specifically, I would like to know:
The total number of arrests over the above time period during match days at this ground broken down by arresting offence and outcome of each arrest (i.e. charged, released without charge, caution, etc). Could you please break these figures down season-by-season.
The Performance Analysis Department have provided the following information.
Searches were completed on Niche for arrests with the location of “BH77AF” in the months August to May.
Please note:
- Some arrests may have multiple offences linked to them, therefore, the totals will not match.
- Information is only held from August 2015.
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Total Arrests |
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Person Link Involvement |
2015/16 |
2016/17 |
2017/18 |
2018/19 |
2019/20 |
2021/22 |
2022/23 |
2023/24 |
Total |
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Arrested |
3 |
|
2 |
|
|
|
|
|
5 |
|
Arrested;Adult caution |
10 |
2 |
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
13 |
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Arrested;Adult caution;Charged;No further action |
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
Arrested;Adult community resolution |
|
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
Arrested;Adult conditional caution |
|
|
|
|
2 |
1 |
|
|
3 |
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Arrested;Charged |
|
7 |
7 |
5 |
|
5 |
2 |
|
25 |
|
Arrested;Charged;No further action |
|
1 |
|
4 |
|
|
|
1 |
6 |
|
Arrested;Child involved;No further action |
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
|
1 |
|
Arrested;No further action |
2 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
|
1 |
3 |
|
9 |
|
Arrested;No further action;Postal requisition / Summons issued |
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
1 |
|
Arrested;No further action;Suspect |
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
Charged |
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
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No further action |
|
3 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
3 |
|
Total |
15 |
16 |
12 |
11 |
3 |
7 |
5 |
1 |
70 |
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Total Offences |
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Reason for Arrest |
2015/16 |
2016/17 |
2017/18 |
2018/19 |
2019/20 |
2021/22 |
2022/23 |
2023/24 |
Total |
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Affray (recordable) |
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
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Assault a person thereby occasioning them actual bodily harm (recordable) |
|
1 |
|
|
|
1 |
2 |
|
4 |
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Assault by beating (recordable) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
1 |
|
Common assault (recordable) |
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
Common assault of an emergency worker (recordable) |
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
|
1 |
|
Drunk in a sports ground - sporting events (recordable) |
2 |
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
|
3 |
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Drunk while trying to enter a sports ground - sporting events (recordable) |
2 |
|
|
|
|
|
2 |
|
4 |
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Drunk whilst entering a sports ground - sporting events (recordable) |
1 |
|
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
2 |
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Go onto area adjacent to playing area - Football (Offences) Act 1991 (recordable) |
2 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2 |
|
Go onto playing area at a football match - Football (Offences) Act 1991 (recordable) |
8 |
5 |
9 |
15 |
|
4 |
|
1 |
42 |
|
Indecent / racial chanting at a designated football match - Football (Offences) Act 1991 (recordable) |
|
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
Obstruct / resist a constable in execution of duty (recordable) |
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
Possess a controlled drug of Class A - Other (recordable) |
1 |
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
2 |
|
Possess a firework / flare at a sporting event (recordable) |
|
3 |
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
4 |
|
Possess an offensive weapon in a public place (recordable) |
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
|
1 |
|
Possess intoxicating liquor in view area of a sporting event (recordable) |
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
1 |
|
Public Nuisance - indecent exposure (recordable) |
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
Racially / religiously aggravated intentional harassment / alarm / distress - words / writing (recordable) |
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
1 |
|
Sexual assault on a female (recordable) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
1 |
|
Sporting event - possess drink container in view area (recordable) |
|
2 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
2 |
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Throw a missile onto a football playing area - Football (Offences) Act 1991 (recordable) |
1 |
6 |
1 |
|
|
|
1 |
|
9 |
|
Throw missile at area adjacent to pitch - Football (Offences) Act 1991 (recordable) |
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
1 |
|
Use threatening / abusive words / behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress (recordable) |
1 |
3 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
4 |
|
Total |
18 |
23 |
12 |
17 |
4 |
8 |
6 |
2 |
90 |