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Dating apps - 414/19

Date Responded 23 April 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:

The number of crimes recorded by your force between January 2013 and December 2018, where one of the following terms have been used, e.i in the MO field of the crime report.

"Dating app"

"Dating website"

"Internet date"

"Internet dating"

"Online dating"

Please break down the statistic by year, type of crime/incident, including the name of the dating website, the ages/genders of those involved; and what the offence(s) was/were, and the outcome of any investigation.

 

In Response:

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

414/19

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.

The information we have supplied to you is likely to contain intellectual property rights of Northumbria Police. Your use of the information must be strictly in accordance with the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 (as amended) or such other applicable legislation. In particular, you must not re-use this information for any commercial purpose.

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