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Sexual grooming charges and website/ social media flags in 2021/22

Freedom of information request reference no: 01.FOI.22.027227

I note you seek access to the following information:

1. In the last financial year 2021/22 please state how many
(a) crimes were logged and
(b) people charged by your force with sexual grooming (Home Office Offence code: 88A)?

2. In relation to the reports of the crimes having been committed (rather than the cases of people being charged) is there a facility on your computer databases to flag if a particular website or social media platform was used as the basis for the communication?

3. If you did record the sites/platforms could you provide me with the breakdown of how many crime cases that were logged related to each website/platform, making sure to identify the website/platform.

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Please find below information pursuant to your request above.

Q1 - In the last financial year 2021/22 please state how many
(a) crimes were logged and
(b) people charged by your force with sexual grooming (Home Office Offence code: 88A)?

A search has been completed with all three codes 088/01 088/02 and 071/17 with MR (which show online/internet enable crime), feature for the date range specified and no data was returned.

Q2. In relation to the reports of the crimes having been committed (rather than the cases of people being charged) is there a facility on your computer databases to flag if a particular website or social media platform was used as the basis for the communication?

Q3. If you did record the sites/platforms could you provide me with the breakdown of how many crime cases that were logged related to each website/platform, making sure to identify the website/platform.

There is no database containing all the specific apps and websites these types of offences occurred on.

The specific site the offence occurred on may be recorded in the crime report but all records would need to be read to determine this.