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:
Please can you provide the following information for the calendar years 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021:
1. The number of "revenge porn" crimes – 008/71, disclosure of private sexual photographs and films with intent to cause distress – logged by the force in each year
2. Of these, how many fell into the following victim age groups: under 18, 18 to 25, 26 to 29, 30 to 39, 40 to 49, 50 and over
3. How many had a type 1 outcome ("Charge / Summons")
4. How many had a type 14 outcome ("Evidential difficulties: suspect not identified; victim does not support further action")
5. How many had a type 15 outcome (Evidential difficulties: suspect identified; victim supports action")
6. How many had a type 16 outcome ("Evidential difficulties: suspect identified; victim does not support further action")
In Response:
We have now had the opportunity to fully consider your request and I provide a response for your attention.
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 with the caveat notes as follows.
• Please note that the data has been presented in such a manner as to avoid the application of exemptions relevant under the Act (Section 40 – Personal Information) to withhold due to low numbers, and these will not be broken down further.
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2015 |
2016 |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
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Disclose private sexual photographs and films with intent to cause distress |
36 |
88 |
101 |
115 |
134 |
165 |
183 |
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Age Group |
0-19 |
8 |
16 |
25 |
23 |
33 |
35 |
41 |
|
20-29 |
17 |
41 |
39 |
60 |
58 |
75 |
69 |
|
|
30-39 |
6 |
22 |
26 |
25 |
34 |
34 |
50 |
|
|
40-49 |
3 |
5 |
8 |
4 |
5 |
14 |
18 |
|
|
50-79 |
1 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
|
|
Unknown/Unstated |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
4 |
1 |
|
|
101 Charge/Summons |
7 |
9 |
8 |
12 |
8 |
6 |
8 |
|
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114 Victim declines or is unable to identify suspect |
2 |
5 |
7 |
6 |
1 |
10 |
11 |
|
|
115 Evidential difficulties |
8 |
16 |
19 |
33 |
38 |
63 |
45 |
|
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116 Victim does not support police action |
7 |
23 |
36 |
26 |
34 |
40 |
57 |
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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.
