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Prevention from harassment warning letters issued from 2019 and 2021

Freedom of information request reference no: 01.FOI.23.029178

I note you seek access to the following information:

1. How many prevention from harassment warning letters did your force issue in:
• 2019 • 2020 • 2021

2. How many prevention from harassment warning letters sent in 2019 involved at least one incident taking place on a social media platform? By social media I mean use of any of the following platforms: Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, YouTube, TicTok, Instagram and/or WhatsApp

3. How many prevention from harassment warning letters sent in 2020 involved at least one incident taking place on a social media platform? By social media I mean use of any of the following platforms: Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, YouTube, TicTok, Instagram and/or WhatsApp

4. How many prevention from harassment warning letters sent in 2021 involved at least one incident taking place on a social media platform? By social media I mean use of any of the following platforms: Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, YouTube, TicTok, Instagram and/or WhatsApp

Decision

I have today decided to disclose the located information to you in full.

Please find below information pursuant to your request above.

Q1 - How many prevention from harassment warning letters did your force issue in:
• 2019 • 2020 • 2021

Q2 - How many prevention from harassment warning letters sent in 2019 involved at least one incident taking place on a social media platform? By social media I mean use of any of the following platforms: Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, YouTube, TicTok, Instagram and/or WhatsApp

Q3 - How many prevention from harassment warning letters sent in 2020 involved at least one incident taking place on a social media platform? By social media I mean use of any of the following platforms: Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, YouTube, TicTok, Instagram and/or WhatsApp

Q4 - How many prevention from harassment warning letters sent in 2021 involved at least one incident taking place on a social media platform? By social media I mean use of any of the following platforms: Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, YouTube, TicTok, Instagram and/or WhatsApp

Please note: Ensure the notes page is read in conjunction with the data.

As the request focuses on at least one incident taking place on a social media platform, I have captured those offences where Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and/or WhatsApp were recorded in the context of the offence.

The absence of Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and/or WhatsApp does not mean that social media was not mentioned in the CRIS, rather this only means the CRIS did not explicitly mention the stated social media platforms in the context of the offence.

Please see below:
A count of Suspects with a Suspect Elimination History Reason of First Instance of Harassment, across the MPS. With the Feature Code for Online/internet enabled crime Recorded Date between 1st January 2019 and 31st December 2021. In some instances there were multiple Social Media Platforms involved.

Facebook - 22
WhatsApp - 11
Instagram - 9
Twitter - 1
Snapchat - 1
No specific platform mentioned - 25

Please also note:
The ‘online element’ is likely highly under-reported because flags/feature codes may not be accurate and used in every instance. However, there would be a huge cost/time implication (it would take beyond 18hours) to manually search this.