Revenge porn data
Dear Metropolitan Police Service (MPS),
I hope you and the team are well. Please can you provide figures on the number of cases of revenge porn reported to the force in the year 2015/16.
Please can you also disaggregate data according to the following information:
- The crime outcome (no action, charge, caution etc) of the offences as well as the number of offences where the victim did not support or withdrew support for police action
- The number of victims under the age of 18
- The gender of the victim
Please also provide, where possible, cases in which the case involved social media. I understand this isn't routinely logged, so please just include notes from free-text searches for key words ("social media" , "Twitter", "Facebook" etc) where available.
Yours faithfully,
M Esslemont
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Our ref: 01/FOI/20/013856
11/03/2020
Dear Esslemont
Freedom of Information Request Reference No: 01/FOI/20/013856
I write in connection with your request for information which was received
by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) on 10/03/2020. I note you seek
access to the following information:
Please can you provide figures on the number of cases of revenge porn
reported to the force in the year 2015/16.
Please can you also disaggregate data according to the following
information:
- The crime outcome (no action, charge, caution etc) of the offences as
well as the number of offences where the victim did not support or
withdrew support for police action -The number of victims under the age of
18 -The gender of the victim
Please also provide, where possible, cases in which the case involved
social media. I understand this isn't routinely logged, so please just
include notes from free-text searches for key words ("social media" ,
"Twitter", "Facebook" etc) where available.
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Tracey Rashford
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20/04/2020
Dear Sir/Madam
Freedom of Information Request Reference No: 01/FOI/20/013856
Please see the attached in respect of your Freedom of Information request
referenced above.
Yours sincerely
Lisa Murphy
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Dear Lisa Murphy,
Thank you for this - I understand that there may be a delay due to the impact of coronavirus. I'd like to amend my request to account for two time periods, to save you having to answer subsequent requests. This information is necessary, but hopefully it will not be too onerous to provide.
Please can provide the information originally requested for the year 2015/2016, but also for 2019/2020? I recognise that this will take at least an additional 20 working days to provide.
Thank you so much for your understanding.
Yours sincerely,
M Esslemont
Good Morning,
Thank you for your email below.
Just for clarity and to make sure we are collating the information you require correctly, are you saying that you require the following information for just the years 2019/2020?
'Please can you provide figures on the number of cases of revenge porn reported to the force in the year 2015/16.
Please can you also disaggregate data according to the following information:
- The crime outcome (no action, charge, caution etc) of the offences as well as the number of offences where the victim did not support or withdrew support for police action -The number of victims under the age of 18 -The gender of the victim
Please also provide, where possible, cases in which the case involved social media. I understand this isn't routinely logged, so please just include notes from free-text searches for key words ("social media" , "Twitter", "Facebook" etc) where available'
Kind Regards
Lisa.
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