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FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NO: FOI-567-2024
I write in connection with your request for information which was received on 17th June 2024 as follows:
Note: by 'revenge porn’, we mean sharing or threatening to share private sexual photographs or films without the consent of the person depicted and with intent to cause them distress, which was a criminal offence under section 33 of the 2015 Criminal Justice and Courts Act
Outcome type 1 (charged/summonsed)
Outcome type 14 (Evidential difficulties: suspect not identified; victim does not support further action)
Outcome type 15 (Evidential difficulties: suspect identified; victim supports action)
Outcome type 16 (Evidential difficulties: suspect identified; victim does not support further action)
Please find the Warwickshire police response set out below. When reviewing the information please note that it was obtained by conducting searches for all offences, recorded between 01/01/2023 and 31/12/2023, under Home Office Code ‘008/71 - Disclose or threats to disclose private sexual photographs/film with intent to cause distress’. The number of the specified outcomes have been provided below; however, please note that other outcomes will apply and that some investigations will still be ongoing and therefore not outcomed at the time of the request.
Q1 response: 88
Q2 response:
Outcome Type 1 (charged/summonsed) - 2
Outcome type 14 (Evidential difficulties: suspect not identified; victim does not support further action) - 13
Outcome type 15 (Evidential difficulties: suspect identified; victim supports action) - 11
Outcome type 16 (Evidential difficulties: suspect identified; victim does not support further action) – 34
Every effort has been made to ensure that the information provided is as accurate as possible.
Your attention is drawn to the below which details your right of complaint.
Should you have any further enquiries concerning this matter, please write or email the Freedom of Information Unit quoting the reference number above.
Yours sincerely
Freedom of Information Officer
Freedom of Information Unit
Warwickshire Police
PO Box 4
Leek Wootton
Warwickshire
CV35 7QB