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Enquiry Reference: 257- 24
I write in connection with regards to your Freedom of Information request, firstly please accept my apology for the delay. Below is your request and our response.
Section 1 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) places two duties on public authorities. Unless exemptions apply, the first duty at Section 1 (1) (a) is to confirm or deny whether the information specified in a request is held. The second duty at Sec 1(1) (b) is to disclose information that has been confirmed as being held. Where exemptions are relied upon s17 of FOIA requires that we provide the applicant with a notice which: a) states that fact b) specifies the exemption(s) in question and c) states (if that would not otherwise be apparent) why the exemption applies.
Having made enquiries within the Force due to the nature of our recording systems the information requested, if held, is not in an easily retrievable format. Our information retrieval process generally relies on a computer ran report which captures any information recorded upon the surface of a record. Where relevant information is held deeper in a record a manual assessment is usually required to retrieve that information. In this instance total number of cases which resulted in an ABE / Video Recorded Interview being conducted and which resulted in a disclosure and arrests being made are not held at the case management system level therefore to determine such detail would require a manual search through all the records, a time-consuming process which would take in excess of the appropriate time stipulated by the Secretary for Constitutional Affairs, Lord Falconer on the 18th Of October 2004, that is, eighteen hours. This falls under the exemption of 'Compliance exceeding the appropriate limit' covered by Section 12 (1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and as such this work could not be undertaken.
Therefore, please treat this as a refusal notice under S17(5) of the Freedom of information Act.
In accordance with Section 16 of the Act we have a duty to provide advice and assistance however on this occasion we cannot offer any suggestion on how you could refine this request.
On this occasion however, we have provided the following information as a gesture of goodwill outside of the Freedom of information Act 2000.
The total number of child sexual abuse cases investigated by Cleveland Police in 2022 and 2023.
The below shows the volume of crimes per calendar year. Number of CSA crimes - goes off crime type of a child sex offence and then the victim age if the crime type doesn't specify.
Includes 86 - obscene publications.
2022 |
2023 |
2051 |
2369 |
It is the duty of Cleveland Police to identify and apprehend suspects, decisions regarding prosecutions are the responsibility of the Crown Prosecution Service and Convictions is that of HM Courts Service therefore Conviction data is held by HM Courts
These are not the exact ages of when how old the victim was when the abuse began. It is also dependant on data quality for dates entered.
Age |
2022 |
2023 |
Total |
0 |
5 |
7 |
12 |
1 |
2 |
5 |
7 |
2 |
10 |
7 |
17 |
3 |
12 |
14 |
26 |
4 |
26 |
37 |
63 |
5 |
23 |
46 |
69 |
Grand Total |
78 |
116 |
194 |
Financial year Apr 22 – Mar 23 – Budget - £2,813,300 (this includes both pay and non-pay)
Financial year Apr 23 – Mar 24 – Budget - £2,612,200 (this includes both pay and non-pay) – The reduction in budget is due to the Missing from Home Team moving from CAVA to Local Policing from a budget perspective.
As mentioned below this is the budget allocated directly to the CAVA team. This will not include centralised costs or the costs of other teams which will also have involvement with Child Abuse cases.
28 Specialist Child Abuse Investigators 1.8%
23 Specialist Sexual Assault Investigators 1.4%
162 PiP2 Investigators are ABE trained which includes the specialist officers above.
In total we have 10.4% of the police establishment of 1552 trained
Please note that all statistical data supplied in relation to Freedom of Information requests is a snapshot of data held at the time the request was received by the Freedom of Information office and is subject to constant change/updates.
The Cleveland Police response to your request is unique and it should be noted that Police Forces do not use generic systems or identical procedures to capture and record data therefore responses from Cleveland Police should not be used as a comparison with any other force response you receive.
If you are not satisfied with this response or any actions taken in dealing with your request, you have the right to request an independent internal review of your case under our review procedure. The APP College of Policing guidance states that a request for internal review should be made within 20 working days of the date on this response or 40 working days if extenuating circumstances to account for the delay can be evidenced.
Yours sincerely
Information Rights Decision Maker