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Incidents, Indecent, Exposure, Reported, Arrested, Arrest, Charge, Sex, Perpetrators, Victims, Individual, Male, Female, Offences, Recorded, Gender, Volume, Breakdown, Victim.
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Indecent Exposure 2017-2021
2017 to 2021
Please provide data on how many incidents of indecent exposure were reported to police in each of the years 2017 - 2021.
Please provide data on how many of these arrested in an arrest and/or charge.
Please also supply data on the sex of perpetrators/victims. If it is not possibly to provide this for individual incidents, please do this more generally. Eg. Of 200 hundred incidents, there were 100 male victims, 100 female victims.
Full Disclosure
06 January 2022
07 January 2022
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:
Caveats:
The data is correct as at 06 January 2022.
Dates: 01 January 2017 to 31 October 2021.
Data: This is a count of Exposure Offences under Home Office (HO) Code 088/09 “Exposure”.
Please note that not all offences recorded have a victim recorded, which is why the totals do not match between the volume of offences and the volume of gender breakdown.
Please provide data on how many incidents of indecent exposure were reported to Police in each of the years 2017 - 2021.
The volume of Exposure Offences under HO Code 088/09 recorded in each year from 2017 to 2021 (2021 is not a full year) are listed below:
Year |
Volume Recorded Crime |
2017 |
257 |
2018 |
230 |
2019 |
296 |
2020 |
265 |
2021 (to end of Oct) |
248 |
Please provide data on how many of these arrested in an arrest and/or charge.
The volume of Exposure Offences under HO Code 088/09 recorded in each year from 2017 to 2021 (2021 is not a full year) which had a Charged Outcome are listed below:
Year |
Volume Charged |
2017 |
25 |
2018 |
26 |
2019 |
35 |
2020 |
50 |
2021 (to end of Oct) |
30 |
Please also supply data on the sex of perpetrators/victims. If it is not possibly to provide this for individual incidents, please do this more generally. Eg. Of 200 hundred incidents, there were 100 male victims, 100 female victims.
The Victim Gender breakdown for Exposure Offences under HO Code 088/09 from 2017 to 2021 (2021 is not a full year) are listed below:
Grand Total |
787 |
159 |
15 |
961 |
Year |
Female |
Male |
Not recorded |
Total |
2017 |
168 |
44 |
3 |
215 |
2018 |
155 |
26 |
5 |
186 |
2019 |
177 |
32 |
1 |
210 |
2020 |
149 |
40 |
3 |
192 |
2021 |
138 |
17 |
3 |
158 |
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.
The Force Information Management Board chaired by the Deputy Chief Constable has oversight of the Force wide programme of work to improve the quality of Force data. If work has identified issues with data quality, leads in all key areas of the business together with the Force Data Quality Team will identify and resolve issues through a variety of mechanisms to ensure regular and appropriate supervisory oversight.