FOI Request 2067

Subject: Deliberate Fires

Status: Complete

Date received: October 2024

Question Asked:

How many times has your force been called out to deal with deliberate fires to a VEHICLE in 2024 (up to the 31st September), and every year since 2014. Please can yearly figures be broken down by month.
How many times has your force been called out to deal with deliberate fires to a HOUSE in 2024 (up until the 31st September), and every year since 2014. Please can yearly figures be broken down by month.
How many times has your force been called out to deal with deliberate fires to a BUSINESS in 2024 (up until the 31st September), and every year since 2014. Please can yearly figures be broken down by month.
How many people have died from cases of deliberate fires in 2024 (up until the 31st September), and every year since 2014. Please can yearly figures be broken down by month.

Our Response:

1. How many times has your force been called out to deal with deliberate fires to a VEHICLE in 2024 (up until the 31st September), and every year since 2014. Please can yearly figures be broken down by month.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Total
2014	8	15	11	11	11	9	9	9	12	12	3	11	121
2015	5	5	3	4	12	7	11	9	11	12	14	14	107
2016	11	11	12	9	7	14	11	16	9	11	11	6	128
2017	11	13	10	8	12	15	10	14	12	10	10	9	134
2018	11	11	13	16	7	15	9	7	14	8	19	6	136
2019	14	12	9	12	10	7	8	12	17	10	11	8	130
2020	15	13	9	12	7	8	11	11	7	3	3	10	109
2021	6	4	5	7	9	11	8	10	10	7	3	11	91
2022	12	8	6	6	4	14	8	6	8	8	4	5	89
2023	3	2	3	4	6	8	8	8	4	6	7	5	64
2024	8	2	6	11	9	7	3	6	4				56

2. How many times has your force been called out to deal with deliberate fires to a HOUSE in 2024 (up until the 31st September), and every year since 2014. Please can yearly figures be broken down by month.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Total
2014	3	6	2	4	3	3	2	9	8	5	4	0	49
2015	2	5	4	4	1	7	2	4	5	3	4	2	43
2016	3	5	3	5	5	4	5	6	4	6	6	8	60
2017	2	3	4	2	4	2	4	8	9	4	6	6	54
2018	8	3	5	6	10	4	7	2	1	7	2	4	59
2019	7	3	6	3	3	0	4	6	4	8	0	4	48
2020	6	4	7	4	2	2	2	6	5	4	6	3	51
2021	0	2	1	3	5	3	4	2	0	5	7	1	33
2022	3	2	5	4	4	4	2	3	3	6	6	3	45
2023	3	3	4	3	3	2	6	3	1	2	4	4	38
2024	4	2	2	6	2	2	3	2	1				24

3. How many times has your force been called out to deal with deliberate fires to a BUSINESS in 2024 (up until the 31st September), and every year since 2014. Please can yearly figures be broken down by month.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Total
2014	3	0	4	6	6	6	4	11	7	12	7	9	75
2015	6	6	8	12	7	13	12	4	5	4	3	7	87
2016	4	7	4	15	8	7	8	6	5	8	9	4	85
2017	5	5	7	6	11	10	7	8	7	9	2	0	77
2018	0	10	2	3	2	5	4	3	4	0	2	5	40
2019	5	2	5	5	10	5	6	3	4	5	3	3	56
2020	6	6	1	1	8	4	6	3	0	1	4	4	44
2021	4	2	1	5	8	3	2	4	6	10	3	2	50
2022	2	3	7	1	13	13	12	3	9	3	4	5	75
2023	3	5	4	3	14	12	8	4	3	8	9	3	76
2024	3	3	13	5	5	7	9	9	2				56

4. How many people have died from cases of deliberate fires in 2024 (up until the 31st September), and every year since 2014. Please can yearly figures be broken down by month.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Total
2014	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
2015	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2
2016	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2
2017	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
2018	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
2019	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2020	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2021	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2022	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
2023	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2024	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				0

Data Caveats:

Property Types used:
- VEHICLE - Any fire on the Incident Recording System with a property type of ROAD VEHICLE
- HOUSE - Any fire on the Incident Recording System with a property type of DWELLING
- BUSINESS - Any fire on the Incident Recording System with a property type of OTHER RESIDENTIAL (hostels, B&Bs, nursing homes, student halls of residence, etc) or NON RESIDENTIAL (offices, shops, factories, warehouses, restaurants, cinemas, public buildings, religious buildings, agricultural buildings, railway stations, etc)
Any fire with a deliberate cause has been included (A deliberate fire is a fire started deliberately such as suspected arson and some fires started by children, psychiatric patients, suicides and attempted suicides)

Outcome: Information Provided

FOI responded to within timescales: YES

Further action: NO

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