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Freedom of information request reference no: 01.FOI.24.040036
I note you seek access to the following information:
I have been collecting data published by the government on the number of blackmail offences (offence code: 35) recorded by police forces every financial year from April 2012 to March 2013 to April 2023 to March 2024. These are published here:
Official Statistics - Police recorded crime and outcomes open data tables
I am now looking for more information from each force about the ages recorded for the victims in these cases.
The Met's recorded blackmail offences for each of the years is as follows:
April 2012 to March 2013: 725
April 2013 to March 2014: 959
April 2014 to March 2015: 1495
April 2015 to March 2016: 1785
April 2016 to March 2017: 1614
April 2017 to March 2018: 1915
April 2018 to March 2019: 2730
April 2019 to March 2020: 2014
April 2020 to March 2021: 2410
April 2021 to March 2022: 2877
April 2022 to March 2023: 3805
April 2023 to March 2024: 4863
Question - For each of the financial years since April 2012 to March 2013, please could you break down the ages recorded for victims of all of the blackmail offences recorded by the force?
Please feel free to group ages. For instance, if there were 50 recorded blackmail offences for one year you could then provide the ages in groups such as: 5 aged 14; 5 aged 15; 10 aged 16; 20 aged 17; 10 aged 18 etc
I have today decided to disclose the located information to you in full.
Please find below information pursuant to your request above.