Victims – Aged Under 18 (228A/24)
Request
Where all of the following conditions apply:
financial year 2021/22
the offence code was in use by West Midlands during the timeframe
one or more victims is under 18 at time of incident
please state, per offence code, how many of the following crimes were recorded by West Midlands, broken down by crime outcome code (1-22), and whether the victim was under 18, 18 and over, or where victim age is unknown:
1. Abduction (Home Office offence codes: 02500, 02501, 02502, 02503, 02504, 02505)
2. Soliciting by a man (Home Office offence codes: 02700)
3. Abuse of children through prostitution and pornography (Home Office offence codes: 07100, 07101, 07102, 07103, 07104, 07105, 07106, 07107, 07108, 07109, 07110, 07111, 07112, 07113, 07114, 07115, 07117)
4. Trafficking For Sexual Exploitation (Home Office offence codes: 07200, 07201, 07202, 07203, 07204, 07205, 07206)
5. Abuse of Trust – Sexual Offences (Home Office offence codes: 07300, 07301, 07302, 07303, 07304, 07305, 07306, 07307, 07308, 07309, 07310, 07311, 07312, 07313, 07314, 07315, 07316, 07317, 07318)
6. Gross Indecency with Children (Home Office offence codes: 07400, 07401, 07402)
7. Obscene publications etc and protected sexual material (Home Office offence codes: 08600, 08601, 08602, 08603, 08604, 08605, 08606, 08607, 08608, 08609, 08610, 08611, 08612, 08613, 08614, 08615, 08616, 08617)
8. Miscellaneous Sexual Offences (Home Office offence codes: 08800, 08801, 08802, 08803, 08804, 08805, 08806, 08807, 08809, 08810, 08811)
Response
Please find attached (228A_24_attachment.pdf).
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.