15 April 2021
Tess McCawe
Via
[FYI request #15000 email]
Dear Ms McCawe
REQUEST FOR INFORMATION – OUR REFERENCE: IR-01-21-10262
I refer to your request dated 26 March 2021, which sought the following
information:
Please provide the total number of individual profiles that the police have placed a
1M alert on. Please provide counts for the following demographic breakdown of the
profiles that have a 1M alert:
Males under 20
Females under 20
Other gender identity under 20
Males 20-39
Females 20-39
Other gender identity 20-39
Males 40-59
Females 40-59
Other gender identity 40-59
Males 60-79
Females 60-79
Other gender identity 60-79
Males 80+
Females 80+
Other gender identity 80+
Your request has been considered in accordance with the Of icial Information Act
1982.
Alerts are recorded by Police for a variety of reasons and are used to
communicate a risk, operational requirement, or any other important information.
The Police National Recording Standard (NRS) describes the Mental Health
alert’s purpose “to advise staff that a person been involved in an incident reported
to police where mental health was the reason for police attendance or a
contributing factor”.
As at 15 April 2021, the following information about individual person profiles with
at least one Mental Health alert is tabulated below for your request for Gender
and Age Group information. The dataset is individuals (non-deceased) in Police’s
National Intelligence Application (NIA) who have a current or expired Mental
Health Alert.
Female
Male
Unknown
Total
Under 20
971
1383
1
2355
20-39
4795
7221
4
12020
40-59
3585
4349
4
7938
60-79
1602
1491
8
3101
80+
455
362
3
820
Unknown
3
4
1
8
Sum:
11411
14810
21
26242
NIA does not currently have fields to record a person’s gender; it allows recording
of ‘biological sex’. The three options are
Male,
Female, and
unknown.
I trust that the information provided satisfactorily addresses your areas of interest.
If not, then you have the right to ask the Ombudsman to investigate and review
the way your request has been handled.
Respectfully,
Mark Johnson
Manager Case Management – Service Group
Police National Headquarters