Crimes under 16 - 227/19

Date Responded 19 March 2019

Provision of information held by Northumbria Police made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the 'Act')

As you may be aware the purpose of the Act is to allow a general right of access to information held at the time of a request, by a Public Authority (including the Police), subject to certain limitations and exemptions.

You asked:

I would like to know the number of persons under 16 arrested on suspicion of crimes involving Tinder/Bumble/Grindr/Facebook and Twitter for the past three years from January 2016 to date.

I would like the information to be broken down on a month by month basis by gender, age, summary of the charge and what police action was taken (e.g. charge, no further action, community referral etc)

In Response:

I am able to disclose the located information to you as follows.

Month and Year	Gender	Age	Summary of Charge	Action Taken
Apr 2016	M	13	Take, permit to be taken or to make distribute or publish indecent photographs or pseudo - photographs of children	102 Caution Youth




Nov 2016	F	13	Stalking without fear / alarm / distress	102 Caution Youth

Feb 2018	M	15	Putting people in fear of violence	101 Charge Summons

Disclaimer

Due to the different methods of recording information across 43 forces, a specific response from one constabulary should not be seen as an indication of what information could be supplied (within cost) by another. Systems used for recording these figures are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data. For this reason responses between forces may differ, and should not be used for comparative purposes.

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