Numbers of Arrests Made for Offences Under the Modern Slavery Act 2015 - 2018 to 2022
Keywords
Modern, Slavery, Act, Arrests, Offences, Trafficking, Referral, Mechanism, NRM.
Publication Number
PUB 1481
FOI Reference Number
16930
Request Title
Numbers of Arrests Made for Offences Under the Modern Slavery Act 2015 - 2018 to 2022
Date Range
01 February 2018 to 31 January 2022
Information Requested
Please provide the total number of arrests your force made for offences under the Modern Slavery Act 2015 between
1 February 2018 and 31 January 2022, with the data broken down into a year-by-year basis, i.e. 1 February 2018 – 31 January 2019, 1 February 2019 – 31 January 2020 etc.
Please also break down this arrest data by specific offence under the Act between 1 February 2018 and 1 February 2022, again with the data broken down into a year-by-year basis, i.e. 1 February 2018 – 31 January 2019, 1 February 2019 – 31 January 2020 etc.
Disclosure with Exemptions
Part Disclosure with Section 12 Exemption
Information Correct as at
24 October 2022
Date of Disclosure
25 October 2022
Related Documents/Links
Human Trafficking Reports Recorded 2015-2021
FOI 16930 Response
FOI Duty
First Duty – Essex Police holds information relating to your request
Second Duty – See below
Fact - It is not possible to extract and verify all the data in your request
Exemption - Section 12(1)
Refusal - Section 17(5) of FOIA
Reasoning -
It is not possible to break down this arrest data by specific offence under the Act within a reasonable timescale. Essex Police systems are designed primarily for the management of individual cases and not primarily for the production of statistical information. This request would entail manually extracting the requested data and reviewing each record one by one and therefore also qualify as the creation of data as the results cannot be processed by means of purely sorting or filtering data sources or running a database query tool. There is no requirement under the act to create data purely to answer FOI requests.
Duty to assist - When refusing a request on cost (Section 12(1)/12(2), outside of the act and in effort to assist we can provide the following -
Essex Police can report:
Caveat: The data and statements are correct as at 24/10/2022
Table shows arrests under the Modern Slavery Act 2015
|
Period |
Sum of Count of Arrests |
|
Feb 18 – Jan 19 |
11 |
|
Feb 19 – Jan 20 |
1 |
|
Feb 20 – Jan 21 |
21 |
|
Feb 21 – Jan 22 |
42 |
|
Grand Total |
75 |
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 National Referral Mechanism (NRM) is a framework for identifying victims of human trafficking or modern slavery and ensuring they receive the appropriate support.
On 29 April 2019 the Home Office assumed responsibility for all areas of the NRM, including referrals, decision making and data collection – please see below link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-referral-mechanism-statistics
Prior to that date the National Crime Agency (NCA) was responsible for collecting data on the NRM and that data can still be found on Publications. For statistics prior to 2017, please visit the National Archive.
Please note the above request will be included within our Publication Scheme.