Crimes with Keywords - Sexomnia, Sexsomnia, Sleepwalking, Sleep Walking, Sleep Sex, Sleep Assault, Sleep Disorder, Sleep Condition 2001-2021

Keywords

Sexomnia, Sexsomnia, Sleepwalking, Sleep Walking, Sleep Sex, Sleep Assault, Sleep Disorder, Sleep Condition, Financial Years, Keyword, Terms, Cases, Reported, Crimes, Force, Area, Home Office, Classification Code

Publication Number

PUB 1206

FOI Reference Number

15724

Request Title

Crimes - Keywords - Sexomnia, Sexsomnia, Sleepwalking, Sleep Sex, Sleep Assault, Sleep Disorder, Sleep Condition

Date Range

2001-2021

Information Requested

1.  Please could you undertake a keyword search in order to provide me with the number of cases in all reported crimes in your police force area containing any of the following terms:

“Sexomnia”

“Sexsomnia”

“Sleepwalking”

“Sleep walking”

“Sleep sex”

“Sleep assault”

“Sleep disorder”

“Sleep condition”

In each of the following 20 financial years:

a.     2001-2

b.     2002-3

c.     2003-4

d.     2004-5

e.     2005-6

f.       2006-7

g.     2007-8

h.     2008-9

i.       2009-10

j.       2010-11

k.     2011-12

l.       2012-13

m.   2013-14

n.     2014-15

o.     2015-16

p.     2016-17

q.     2017-18

r.      2018-19

s.     2019-20

t.       2020-21

2.  Please also provide a breakdown of the nature of the reported crimes by offence according to Home Office classification code for each of these years.

Disclosure with Exemptions

Full Disclosure

Information Correct as at

18 June 2021

Date of Disclosure

22 June 2021

Related Documents/Links

N/A

FOI 15724 Response

Having completed enquiries within Essex Police in respect of Section 1(1)(a), Essex Police does hold information relating to your request, Essex Police can confirm in respect of Section 1(1)(b) the following data:

Caveat: 

The data is correct as at 18 June 2021.

The data for the Financial Years 2001-2 to 2014-15 was gathered from an old database system (the Essex CrimeFile Universe).

The data for the Financial Years 2014-15 to 2020-21 was obtained from the currently used database system (Athena Crime Universe).

The Modus Operandi (MO) Field in both the systems was selected to have a matches pattern equal to the below list of keywords:

“Sexomnia”

“Sexsomnia”

“Sleepwalking”

“Sleep walking”

“Sleep sex”

“Sleep assault”

“Sleep disorder”

“Sleep condition”.

The Home Office Classification Code for the offence is mentioned in the results table.

Two sets of dates:

Financial Years 2001-2 to 2014-15:  01 January 2001 to 31 March 2015

Financial Years 2014-15 to 2020-21: 01 April 2015 to 31 March 2021

Please note, any keyword search may not be entirely accurate and any results would not necessarily answer your submission, and, therefore, could be highly inaccurate and misleading.

Between the Financial Years 2001-2 to 2020-21, only two sleepwalking and sexual crime incidents were recorded by Essex Police. The details of both these incidents are shown in the below table:

Sleepwalking and Sexual Crimes - 2001 to 2021

Year	Home Office Classification	Crime Offence Details	Number of Crimes
2018	020/05	SEXUAL TOUCHING - THE VICTIM REMEMBERS BEING IN THE KITCHEN LATE AT NIGHT WHEN THE SUSPECT CAME IN AND APPROACHED HER.	1
2020	105/01	SUSPECT NAMED WAS SLEEP WALKING AND HAS GRABBED THE VICTIM TO THE CHEEK CAUSING NO INJURY	1
		Total	2

Every effort is made to ensure that the data provided by Essex Police is accurate and complete.  However, Essex Police systems are designed primarily for the management of individual cases and not for the purposes of providing data to answer specific FOI enquiries.  Please note although data can be extracted from a number of sources via database queries, the results may be subject to inaccuracies.  Care should be taken to understand our return when considering the interpretation or further use of the data.