Recorded Sexual Offences Where the Victim is Under 18 and the Suspect is Over 18 - 01/01/19 to 15/12/21

Keywords

Recorded, Sexual, Offences, Victim, Under, Over, 18, Suspect, Year.

Publication Number

PUB 1074

FOI Reference Number

16617

Request Title

Recorded Sexual Offences Where the Victim is Under 18 and the Suspect is Over 18 - 01/01/19 to 15/12/21

Date Range

01 January 2021 to 15 December 2021

Information Requested

Could I ask for the date range 01/01/19 to 15/12/21 to search where the sexual offence is against an under 18, and the suspect is over 18 please? It would be helpful to know how files exist with these parameters, and see if that limits the amount of manual checking that would be needed.

Disclosure with Exemptions

Part Disclosure with Section 40 and Section 44 Exemptions

Information Correct as at

03 February 2022

Date of Disclosure

04 February 2022

Related Documents/Links

Sexual Offences

FOI 16617 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:

Caveats: 

The data is correct as at 03 February 2022.

Although the request asked for data up to 15 December 2021, we have provided data up to 31 December 2021 as this rounds the data to three complete years, making comparisons much easier.

Please see below table for Sexual Offences where the victim is under 18 and the suspect is over 18 by Year for 2019 to 2021:

Please see below table for Sexual Offences where the victim is under 18 and the suspect is over 18 by Year and Month for 2019 to 2021:

 
Essex Police will not provide any further breakdown or information as the exemptions under FOI Section 40(2) Personal Information and Section 44(1) information covered by Prohibitions on disclosure such as the Sexual Offences (amendment) act 1992 which provides anonymity to victims of sexual offences.  

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