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:
For each year 2017 – 2021
1. How many reports of indecent exposure did your police force record as crimes ?
2. What was the outcome of each of these reports (Home Office Outcome)
In Response:
Following receipt of your request, searches were conducted with the Corporate Development Department of Northumbria Police. I can confirm that the information you have requested is held by Northumbria Police.
I am able to disclose the located information to you as follows.
|
Crime Outcome |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
|
Caution adult |
5 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
2 |
|
Caution youth |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Charge/Summons |
16 |
27 |
12 |
20 |
18 |
|
Community Resolution |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Evidential Difficulties |
34 |
34 |
32 |
32 |
40 |
|
Investigation Complete - No suspect identified |
62 |
66 |
84 |
51 |
82 |
|
Investigation not in public interest |
8 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
3 |
|
Not in Public Interest (Police) |
7 |
2 |
5 |
2 |
6 |
|
Offender Deceased |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
Other agency action |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
|
Penalty Notice |
1 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
|
Suspect too ill |
6 |
8 |
6 |
3 |
8 |
|
Suspect under 10 years old |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
Unknown |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
13 |
|
Victim declines or is unable to identify suspect |
21 |
25 |
10 |
11 |
19 |
|
Victim does not support police action |
25 |
18 |
16 |
18 |
17 |
|
Total |
187 |
182 |
169 |
140 |
213 |
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.
If you decide to write an article / use the enclosed data we would ask you to take into consideration the factors highlighted in this document so as to not mislead members of the public or official bodies, or misrepresent the relevance of the whole or any part of this disclosed material.
