FOI 96/26 Exposure Offences
Date: 18/02/26
Enquiry Reference: 96- 26
I write in connection with regards to your Freedom of Information request. Below is your request and our response.
How many new exposure investigations were opened, how many exposure investigations were finalised, how many of the finalised investigations had a named investigating officer allocated, and how many were deployed to at any point, in each calendar year from 2019 to 2025? I specifically mean offence title of exposure, rather than the wider offence category of exposure and voyeurism.
Please see below table. This includes all validated crimes between 01/01/2019 – 31/12/2025 where the crime class is recorded as 088/09 – Exposure:
Please note that ALL crimes are initially investigated, but those that are screened in go on for further investigation by an investigating officer where there are reasonable lines of enquiry.
|
YEAR |
EXPOSURE INVESTIGATIONS OPENED |
EXPOSURE INVESTIGATIONS FINALISED |
OF THE FINALISED EXPOSURE INVESTIGATIONS, NUMBER WHICH WERE ALLOCATED TO A NAMED INVESTIGATING OFFICER |
OF THE FINALISED EXPOSURE INVESTIGATIONS, NUMBER WHICH AN OFFICER ATTENDED IN PERSON AT ANY POINT |
|
2019 |
65 |
65 |
33 |
64 |
|
2020 |
63 |
63 |
34 |
61 |
|
2021 |
76 |
76 |
40 |
72 |
|
2022 |
89 |
89 |
44 |
56 |
|
2023 |
96 |
96 |
68 |
79 |
|
2024 |
66 |
66 |
55 |
60 |
|
2025 |
76 |
66 |
57 |
63 |
- How many of the exposure investigations which were finalised each year were closed within a day of being opened? How many were finalised within a week of being opened? For simplicity please base this on dates rather than hours. i.e. opened on 1st of month and closed by the 2nd (date + 1) or opened on 1st and closed by the 8th (date+7) for example.
See below table:
|
YEAR |
EXPOSURE INVESTIGATIONS FINALISED WITHIN 1 DAY |
EXPOSURE INVESTIGATIONS FINALISED WITHIN 7 DAYS |
|
2019 |
31 |
35 |
|
2020 |
27 |
35 |
|
2021 |
31 |
44 |
|
2022 |
42 |
50 |
|
2023 |
18 |
28 |
|
2024 |
3 |
9 |
|
2025 |
9 |
17 |
- Of the exposure investigations finalised each year, please break down by offence outcome per year (outcome 1-22 or other/na), where for example type 1 includes 1A/alternative offence etc.
See below table:
|
Row Labels |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 |
2025 |
Grand Total |
|
1: Charged |
5 |
6 |
2 |
2 |
8 |
7 |
10 |
40 |
|
1: Summonsed/postal requisition |
3 |
1 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
13 |
||
|
1A: Alternate offence charged |
1 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
6 |
|||
|
1A: Alternate offence summonsed/postal requisition |
1 |
1 |
||||||
|
2: Youth conditional caution |
3 |
3 |
||||||
|
5: Offender has died |
1 |
1 |
||||||
|
10: Police - formal action not in public interest |
2 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
8 |
||
|
11: Named suspect below age of criminal responsibility |
1 |
1 |
2 |
|||||
|
12: Named suspect too ill to prosecute |
1 |
2 |
5 |
6 |
14 |
|||
|
14: Victim declines/unable to support action to identify offender |
6 |
2 |
8 |
10 |
4 |
1 |
2 |
33 |
|
15: CPS - named suspect, victim supports but evidential difficulties |
1 |
1 |
3 |
1 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
12 |
|
15: Police - named suspect, victim supports but evidential difficulties |
12 |
10 |
13 |
16 |
21 |
13 |
10 |
95 |
|
16: Victim declines/withdraws support - named suspect identified |
10 |
12 |
8 |
11 |
17 |
10 |
8 |
76 |
|
18: Investigation complete no suspect identified |
27 |
26 |
27 |
40 |
37 |
18 |
26 |
201 |
|
20: Other body/agency has investigation primacy |
1 |
1 |
2 |
|||||
|
21: Police - named suspect, investigation not in the public interest |
2 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
7 |
|||
|
22: Diversionary, educational or intervention activity, not in public interest to take further action |
1 |
4 |
2 |
7 |
||||
|
Grand Total |
65 |
63 |
76 |
89 |
96 |
66 |
66 |
521 |
Having made enquiries within the Force above is all the information we hold.
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Yours sincerely
Information Rights Decision Maker