BTPA Crime Mapping Statistics

Dear Mr Gardner,

Thank you for your request for information made under the Freedom of
Information Act which we received on 7th May.

You requested the following information from us;

1. The total number of sexual offences reported to the British Transport
Police and supplied to, but not published by, the BTPA in 2007 and 2008.

The Authority does not hold this information but it is held by the British
Transport Police Force, we will pass your request to the British Transport
Police Force for a response.

We receive performance data from the Force in relation to current policing
plan priorities which includes local policing plan targets for ‘violent
and sexual offences’ as a combined category; we are not able to
disaggregate this data into individual crime codes at the Authority.

2. Please breakdown those reported crimes into their respective types;
i.e. Rape, Indecent Assault, Indecent exposure and gross indecency.

The Authority does not hold this information but it is held by the British
Transport Police Force, we will pass your request to the British Transport
Police Force for a response.

It may be useful to note that the BTP crime mapping facility accessed via
our website is actually a link to a section on the Force’s external
website and they are responsible for its current content; we will amend
our website to make this link clearer.

Richard Hemmings
Chief Executive
British Transport Police Authority

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Dear Mr Gardner,

I write in connection with your request for information which BTP received
on 8^th May 2009 , asking for the following information:

1. The total number of sexual offences reported to the British Transport
Police and supplied to, but not published by, the BTPA in 2007 and
2008.

2. Please breakdown those reported crimes into their respective types;
i.e. Rape, Indecent Assault, Indecent exposure and gross indecency.

Your request has been considered and as directed in Section 1 of the
Freedom of Information Act, we can confirm that we do hold the information
requested.

1. These statistics are already published on our website:
[1]http://www.btp.police.uk/freedom_of_info....
BTPA do not as a matter of course receive BTP's crime statistics, but in
respect of BTP all statistical information is published.

2.

+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| | 2007 | 2008 |
|------------------------------+--------------------+--------------------|
|Rape | 1 | 1 |
|------------------------------+--------------------+--------------------|
|Indecent Assault | 9 | 14 |
|------------------------------+--------------------+--------------------|
|Indecent Exposure | 13 | 11 |
|------------------------------+--------------------+--------------------|
|Gross Indecency | 0 | 0 |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in
British Transport Police, and if you have any further queries, please do
not hesitate to contact us.

Yours sincerely,

Elliot Harry

Freedom of Information Officer

Information Standards Unit | British Transport Police | 25 Camden Road,
London NW1 9LN

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