FOI 422571
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NO: 422571
I write in connection with your request for information which was received on 16th July 2025. Please find below the response to your request:
1) Please provide statistics on the crime rate in Evesham for sexual offences against women and girls for the years 06/2023 to 06/2024 and 06/2024 to 06/2025.
2) Please provide the perpetrators' nationalities in respect of query 1 above.
3) What activity/ies have been conducted in the previous 12 months, and/or may be planned to commence in the next 12 months for performing eligibility to work checks at premises in Evesham, such as barber shops, nail salons, car washes? These may be in tandem with Trading Standards or police operations solely.
4) Where such operations have taken place as in query 3 above, what percentage of ineligible workers were found, if any? And how many employers were found to have been employing ineligible workers?
5) If ineligible workers were found, what actions were taken by the employer(s)? For example, was the Home Office informed?
Reply
West Mercia Police hold some of the information requested
1.Please provide statistics on the crime rate in Evesham for sexual offences against women and girls for the years 06/2023 to 06/2024 and 06/2024 to 06/2025.
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Number of Sexual Offences within Evesham which have a victim who is listed as "Female" |
01/06/2023-30/05/2024 |
01/06/2024-30/05/2025 |
Grand Total |
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OTHER SEXUAL OFFENCES |
48 |
36 |
84 |
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RAPE |
34 |
35 |
69 |
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Grand Total |
82 |
71 |
153 |
Please note:
To identify relevant crimes line 3 of the address field which is commonly used to record the town of the location has been searched. The way that addresses are recorded means this may include villages and areas surrounding Evesham town but which have Evesham in address line 3.
There are occasions where the victim or suspect of a crime may not have been identified, or where multiple suspects may be linked to one investigation. Therefore the number of victims/suspects do not match each other and do not equal the number of offences reported
2) Please provide the perpetrators' nationalities in respect of query 1 above.
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Nationality of all suspects linked to Sexual Offences within Evesham which have a victim who is listed as "Female" |
01/06/2023-30/05/2024 |
01/06/2024-30/05/2025 |
Grand Total |
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Botswanan |
1 |
1 |
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British |
34 |
27 |
61 |
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Bulgarian |
1 |
1 |
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Indian |
3 |
3 |
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Latvian |
1 |
1 |
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Lithuanian |
1 |
1 |
2 |
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Nepalese |
1 |
1 |
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Polish |
2 |
2 |
4 |
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Romanian |
1 |
3 |
4 |
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Unknown |
1 |
1 |
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Not Recorded |
23 |
26 |
49 |
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Grand Total |
66 |
62 |
128 |
3) What activity/ies have been conducted in the previous 12 months, and/or may be planned to commence in the next 12 months for performing eligibility to work checks at premises in Evesham, such as barber shops, nail salons, car washes? These may be in tandem with Trading Standards or police operations solely.
No information held specifically, this may be held by other agencies such as Immigration or Trading Standards
4) Where such operations have taken place as in query 3 above, what percentage of ineligible workers were found, if any? And how many employers were found to have been employing ineligible workers?
As per Q3
5) If ineligible workers were found, what actions were taken by the employer(s)? For example, was the Home Office informed?
No information held as per questions 3