Sexual Offences Under 18's 2017-2021
Keywords
Sexual, Activity, Consent, Offences, Under 18, Perpetrator, Victim, Age, Under Age, Gender, School, Academy, College, Location, Financial, Year, Rape, Assault, Penetration, Inciting, Outcome, Offender, Suspect, Charged.
Publication Number
PUB 1224
FOI Reference Number
15752
Request Title
Sexual Offences Under 18's
Date Range
2017-2021
Information Requested
1. The number of sexual offences (described in point 3) that have taken place in the financial years 2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21 and 2021 up to the date this FOI is filed, where the perpetrator is under 18 and the victim is under 18.
If the sexual offence took place in a school, please provide this in the ‘Location’ column – otherwise please leave the ‘Location’ section blank.
2. In the year column please provide the financial year in which the offence took place.
3. In the offence column, please state which offence took place, as categorised by the Sexual Offences Act 2003:
- Rape (s.1)
- Assault by penetration (s.2)
- Sexual assault (s.3)
- Causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent (s.4)
- Rape of a child under 13 (s.5)
- Assault of a child under 13 by penetration (s.6)
- Sexual assault of a child under 13 (s.7)
- Causing or inciting a child under 13 to engage in sexual activity (s.8)
4. In the ‘Victim Age’ column please provide the age of the victim.
5. In the ‘Victim Gender’ column please provide the gender of the victim.
6. In the ‘Perpetrator Age’ column please provide the age of the perpetrator.
7. In the ‘Perpetrator Gender’ column please provide the gender of the perpetrator.
8. In the ‘Outcome’ column please provide the outcome of the police investigation e.g. NFA/suspect charged.
Disclosure with Exemptions
Full Disclosure with Section 40(2) and Section 44(1) Exemptions
Information Correct as at
13 July 2021
Date of Disclosure
06 August 2021
Related Documents/Links
FOI 15752 Response
Having completed enquiries within Essex Police in respect of Section 1(1)(a), Essex Police does hold information relating to your request. Under Section 1(1)(b) the below and attached have been provided in relation to your request:
Caveats:
The data is correct as at 13 July 2021.
All committed offences that come under the Category of the ‘Sexual Offences’ Option for the Offences Group Dimension have been included in the results. A list of all the Sexual Offences Records as categorised by the Sexual Offences Act 2003 and the associated Victim and Suspect Details and Outcome Decisions are presented in the Records Table in the attached spreadsheet. Some Crime Records have multiple Suspects. These duplicate records are highlighted in red and have been given the same reference number.
The ‘Location Premises Name’ Dimension is selected to have a ‘MATCHES PATTERN’ equal to ‘SCHOOL’ or ‘ACADEMY’ or ‘COLLEGE’. By doing this, we have gathered the relevant records where the Offence Location is recorded as being a School or other learning institution. However, it should be noted that 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.
Four sets of dates:
2017/18: 01 April 2017 to 31 March2018
2018/19: 01 April 2018 to 31 March 2019
2019/20: 01 April 2019 to 31 March 2020
2020/21: 01 April 2020 to 30 June 2021 (present).
1. The number of sexual offences (described in point 3) that have taken place in the financial years 2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21 and 2021 up to the date this FOI is filed, where the perpetrator is under 18 and the victim is under 18.
Sexual Offences where Both Victim and Perpetrator are under 18 - 2017 to 2021
|
Financial Year |
Number of Sexual Offences |
|---|---|
|
2017/18 |
604 |
|
2018/19 |
648 |
|
2019/20 |
717 |
|
2020/21 |
503 |
|
2021/22 |
266 |
|
Total |
2,738 |
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.
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.
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