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Date Responded 06 March 2023

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:

Total crime/incident reports received by your police force regarding distribution of private sexual images without consent online (often called ‘revenge porn’) from 1 January 2021 to 1 January 2023
Please separate the data by month (i.e. total reports for January 2021, February 2021, March 2021, etc. until January 2023)

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 as follows.

Month

2021

2022

2023

Jan

10

12

19

Feb

19

15

n/a

Mar

15

13

n/a

Apr

17

13

n/a

May

7

18

n/a

Jun

16

14

n/a

Jul

13

16

n/a

Aug

11

11

n/a

Sep

16

14

n/a

Oct

23

14

n/a

Nov

21

26

n/a

Dec

12

13

n/a

 

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.

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