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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

Cyclops on behalf of Tracey Rashford, Metropolitan Police Service (MPS)

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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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Yours sincerely

 

 

 

Tracey Rashford

 

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Cyclops on behalf of Lisa Murphy, Metropolitan Police Service (MPS)

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Information Rights Unit
PO Box 313
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DA15 0HH

 

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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

Metropolitan Police Service (MPS)

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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