Sexual Offences – Educational Locations (534A/21)
Request
1) How many alleged sexual offences at EDUCATIONAL establishments, have been recorded by your police force, in each of the following calendar years:
a. 2017
b. 2018
c. 2019
d. 2020
2) Please can I have a breakdown of the data provided in 1) by:
a. The type of the alleged sex crime, for example: rape, physical sexual assault, other sexual offence (or whatever categories you record the data as)
b. Whether the perpetrator was an ADULT or CHILD (If you are able to provide an age range, please could you give me this information too)
c. Whether the VICTIM was an ADULT or a CHILD. (If you are able to provide an age range, please could you give me this information too.)
3) How many of the recorded offences in Q1 led to an individual being charged with a sexual offence?
Response
Please find attached (534A_21_attachment.pdf).
Please note that these data should be interpreted with caution. Comparing numbers of incidents/crimes can be misleading and does not necessarily indicate the likelihood of someone being a victim of crime. In addition, the number of incidents/crimes recorded in an area over a period of time can be influenced by a number of factors. Consequently statistics on incidents/crimes for one period may not necessarily be a good indicator of future incidents in that area.
Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from a number of data sources used by forces for police purposes. The detail collected to respond specifically to your request is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when interpreting those data.
The figures provided therefore are our best interpretation of relevance of data to your request, but you should be aware that the collation of figures for ad hoc requests may have limitations and this should be taken into account when those data are used.
If you decide to write an article / use the enclosed data we would ask you to take into consideration the factors highlighted in this document so as to not mislead members of the public or official bodies, or misrepresent the relevance of the whole or any part of this disclosed material.