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:
1. The number of offences listed in your crime database that contain the following keywords:
a. "Tinder"
b. "Bumble"
c. "dating app"
Please provide information for each of the previous two years (2019 and 2020) broken down by month, and information for the current year to 17/06/2021, also broken down by month. If necessary, please identify these by conducting a free text search of your crime database (I.e. where the keyword has been mentioned in CRIS crime reports, contained within the Crime Summary (CLASS Method) field etc).
2. A breakdown of the nature of the offence recorded which mentions the above keywords, for each individual keyword. I.e. offence recorded as blackmail, sexual offence etc. Please provide a total for each category for each year (2019, 2020 and 2021 to 17/06/2021) and whether each offence resulted in a charge or not.
In Response:
I am able to disclose the located information to you as follows with the below noted.
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.
The above has been gathered via a free-text search of crime MOs for the terms "tinder" "bumble" and "dating app"
Only exact matches would be identified via this search; mis-spellings or shortenings would not be included.
With all the above noted I respond as follows.
|
Year |
Month |
Offence/Outcome |
Tinder |
Bumble |
Dating App |
|
2019 |
Jan |
All Offences/Outcomes |
0 |
0 |
2 |
|
Feb |
All Offences/Outcomes |
1 |
0 |
2 |
|
|
Mar |
All Offences/Outcomes |
4 |
0 |
1 |
|
|
Apr |
All Offences/Outcomes |
3 |
0 |
2 |
|
|
May |
All Offences/Outcomes |
2 |
0 |
4 |
|
|
Jun |
All Offences/Outcomes |
2 |
0 |
1 |
|
|
Jul |
All Offences/Outcomes |
0 |
0 |
2 |
|
|
Aug |
All Offences/Outcomes |
1 |
0 |
3 |
|
|
Sep |
All Offences/Outcomes |
1 |
0 |
3 |
|
|
Oct |
All Offences/Outcomes |
2 |
0 |
1 |
|
|
Nov |
All Offences/Outcomes |
0 |
1 |
0 |
|
|
|
Dec |
All Offences/Outcomes |
3 |
0 |
1 |
|
2020 |
Jan |
All Offences/Outcomes |
2 |
0 |
0 |
|
Feb |
All Offences/Outcomes |
4 |
0 |
2 |
|
|
Mar |
All Offences/Outcomes |
1 |
0 |
4 |
|
|
Apr |
All Offences/Outcomes |
1 |
0 |
2 |
|
|
May |
All Offences/Outcomes |
2 |
0 |
5 |
|
|
Jun |
All Offences/Outcomes |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
Jul |
All Offences/Outcomes |
0 |
2 |
2 |
|
|
Aug |
All Offences/Outcomes |
1 |
0 |
3 |
|
|
Oct |
All Offences/Outcomes |
1 |
0 |
1 |
|
|
Nov |
All Offences/Outcomes |
0 |
0 |
6 |
|
|
|
Dec |
All Offences/Outcomes |
2 |
0 |
0 |
|
2021 |
Jan |
All Offences/Outcomes |
3 |
0 |
4 |
|
Feb |
All Offences/Outcomes |
3 |
0 |
5 |
|
|
Mar |
All Offences/Outcomes |
3 |
0 |
2 |
|
|
Apr |
All Offences/Outcomes |
4 |
0 |
2 |
|
|
Jun |
All Offences/Outcomes |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
|
Year |
Month |
Offence/Outcome |
Tinder |
Bumble |
Dating App |
|
2019 |
Jan |
Blackmail |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
|
Non crime |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
|
Feb |
Harassment |
1 |
0 |
1 |
|
|
|
Rape of a female aged 16 and over |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
|
Mar |
Assault without injury |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
Harassment |
2 |
0 |
0 |
||
|
Non crime |
0 |
0 |
1 |
||
|
|
Rape of a female aged 16 and over |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
Apr |
Harassment |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
|
Rape of a female aged 16 and over |
2 |
0 |
1 |
||
|
|
Sexual activity involving child under 16 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
May |
Harassment |
1 |
0 |
1 |
|
|
Non crime |
0 |
0 |
1 |
||
|
Rape of a female aged 16 and over |
0 |
0 |
1 |
||
|
|
Sexual activity involving child under 16 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
|
|
Jun |
Harassment |
2 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
|
Rape of a female aged 16 and over |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
|
Jul |
Non crime |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
|
|
Other offences against the State or Public disorder |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
|
Aug |
Harassment |
1 |
0 |
2 |
|
|
|
Sexual grooming |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
|
Sep |
Harassment |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
|
Other theft |
1 |
0 |
1 |
||
|
|
Sexual activity involving child under 16 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
|
Oct |
Non crime |
1 |
0 |
1 |
|
|
|
Rape of a female aged 16 and over |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
Nov |
Rape of a female aged 16 and over |
0 |
1 |
0 |
|
|
Dec |
Harassment |
3 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
|
Rape of a female aged 16 and over |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
|
2020 |
Jan |
Harassment |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
Rape of a female aged 16 and over |
1 |
0 |
0 |
||
|
Feb |
Blackmail |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
|
Harassment |
2 |
0 |
1 |
||
|
Rape of a female aged 16 and over |
2 |
0 |
0 |
||
|
Mar |
Blackmail |
0 |
0 |
2 |
|
|
Harassment |
0 |
0 |
1 |
||
|
Robbery of business property |
1 |
0 |
1 |
||
|
Apr |
Blackmail |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
Rape of a female aged 16 and over |
0 |
0 |
2 |
||
|
May |
Assault with Injury |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
|
Harassment |
2 |
0 |
2 |
||
|
Non crime |
0 |
0 |
1 |
||
|
Sexual assault on a male aged 13 and over |
0 |
0 |
1 |
||
|
Jun |
Harassment |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
Jul |
Harassment |
0 |
1 |
1 |
|
|
Rape of a female aged 16 and over |
0 |
0 |
1 |
||
|
Threat or possession with intent to commit criminal damage |
0 |
1 |
0 |
||
|
Aug |
Harassment |
0 |
0 |
2 |
|
|
Rape of a female aged 16 and over |
1 |
0 |
0 |
||
|
Sexual grooming |
0 |
0 |
1 |
||
|
Oct |
Harassment |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
Other offences against the State or Public disorder |
0 |
0 |
1 |
||
|
Nov |
Blackmail |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
|
Harassment |
0 |
0 |
5 |
||
|
|
Dec |
Harassment |
2 |
0 |
0 |
|
2021 |
Jan |
Blackmail |
3 |
0 |
0 |
|
Harassment |
0 |
0 |
2 |
||
|
Public fear, alarm or distress |
0 |
0 |
1 |
||
|
Sexual activity involving child under 16 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
||
|
Feb |
Blackmail |
1 |
0 |
1 |
|
|
Harassment |
1 |
0 |
3 |
||
|
Non crime |
1 |
0 |
0 |
||
|
Public fear, alarm or distress |
0 |
0 |
1 |
||
|
Mar |
Assault without injury |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
Harassment |
0 |
0 |
1 |
||
|
Non crime |
1 |
0 |
1 |
||
|
Rape of a female aged 16 and over |
1 |
0 |
0 |
||
|
Apr |
Assault without injury |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
Blackmail |
0 |
0 |
1 |
||
|
Harassment |
3 |
0 |
1 |
||
|
Jun |
Blackmail |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
|
Year |
Month |
Offence/Outcome |
Tinder |
Bumble |
Dating App |
|
2019 |
Jul |
Charge/Summons |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
Aug |
Charge/Summons |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
|
Sep |
Charge/Summons |
0 |
0 |
2 |
|
|
|
Nov |
Charge/Summons |
0 |
1 |
0 |
|
2020 |
Mar |
Charge/Summons |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
Aug |
Charge/Summons |
0 |
0 |
2 |
|
|
|
Oct |
Charge/Summons |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
2021 |
Jan |
Charge/Summons |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
Apr |
Charge/Summons |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
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