revenge porn 379A/22
Request
- Please disclose the number of reports received of “revenge porn” which is an offence under s33 of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 in each of the calendar years:
- 2017
- 2018
- 2019
- 2020
- 2021
- Please disclose the number of arrests made for “revenge porn” under s33 of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 in each of the calendar years:
- 2017
- 2018
- 2019
- 2020
- 2021
- Please disclose the outcomes for the arrests identified in Q2a-e – e.g. charged, no further action etc. Please can you give a breakdown of the outcomes of the arrests made in each of the calendar years identified – if an arrest took place in December 2019 but the outcome was resolved in 2020: please provide the outcome of that arrest in the 2019 data. I hope that makes sense – please let me know if you need any clarification or further explanation from me.
Response
For Question 1:
Under section 21 of the Act, we are not required to provide information in response to a request if it is already reasonably accessible to you. The information you requested is available on the following website.
For Question 2:
Offence Title searched on for arrests: ‘Disclose/Threaten to disclose private sexual photographs and films with intent to cause distress’.
| Number of arrests for ‘Disclose/Threaten to disclose private sexual photographs and films with intent to cause distress’ | |
| 2017 | 50 |
| 2018 | 52 |
| 2019 | 59 |
| 2020 | 89 |
| 2021 | 85 |
For Question 3:
Our data are not organised in such a way as to allow us to provide this information within the appropriate (cost) limit within the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act (see ‘Reason for Decision’ below).
Although excess cost removes the force’s obligations under the Freedom of Information Act, as a gesture of goodwill I have supplied information, relative to your request, retrieved before it was realised that the fees limit would be exceeded (see enclosed document). I trust this is helpful, but it does not affect our legal right to rely on the fees regulations for the remainder of the request.
We can provide the number of arrests and the outcomes, but in order to locate information on the date a crime was recorded against when that crime was finalised ie outcome resolved, would mean that an individual search of each crime would need to be carried out which would exceed the FOI time limit of 18 hours. Please find below the outcomes of the arrests.
| Outcome for Arrests for ‘Disclose/Threaten to disclose private sexual photographs and films with intent to cause distress’ | |||||||
| Outcome | Outcome Type | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | Total |
| Cautioned | Adult conditional caution ( 18 years & over only) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | ||
| CAUTION (adult – 18 years and over only) | 6 | 1 | 2 | 9 | |||
| YOUTH CAUTION | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Charged | (blank) | 16 | 8 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 41 |
| No Further Action | Adult conditional caution ( 18 years & over only) | 1 | 1 | ||||
| CAUTION (adult – 18 years and over only) | 1 | 1 | |||||
| YOUTH CAUTION | 1 | 1 | |||||
| NFA (reason blank) | 26 | 33 | 47 | 54 | 12 | 172 | |
| Pending Investigation | (blank) | 5 | 2 | 18 | 47 | 72 | |
| Police Bail | (blank) | 19 | 19 | ||||
| Postal Charge/Requisition | (blank) | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 12 | |
| Pending | (blank) | 1 | 1 | ||||
| TOTALS | 50 | 52 | 59 | 89 | 85 | ||
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