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Sexual assaults and rapes reported to have taken place in prisons.(433A/23)

Request

My request relates to sexual assaults and rapes reported to have taken place in prisons.

Please could you provide the following information. Please note there are two parts to my request.

1.How many sexual assaults have been reported to your force where the location of the sexual assaults was recorded as “prison”, since 1 January 2010 up until 31 December 2022

2.How many rapes have been reported to your force where the location of the sexual assaults was recorded as “prison”, since 1 January 2010 up until 31 December 2022

In order to complete this freedom of information request, please can you complete a keyword search where “prison” or “HMP” is listed as the premises name.

Response

Please note that these data should be interpreted with caution.

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.

1.How many sexual assaults have been reported to your force where the location of the sexual assaults was recorded as “prison”, since 1 January 2010 up until 31 December 2022

5

2.How many rapes have been reported to your force where the location of the sexual assaults was recorded as “prison”, since 1 January 2010 up until 31 December 2022

4

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