Sexual offences by under 18 year olds (FOI)

Request

A

The number of reports of under 18’s who have received sexually explicit material online or via phones in the last three years.

B

The number of people under 18 reported to police for indecent images offences over the last three years.

In percentage, how much these made up total reports of indecent images offences.

What the gender is of those under 18’s who were reported.

The number of these reported that led to investigations and what their outcome was.

C

The number of reports of sexual offences carried out by under 18 years in the last three years.

In percentage, how much these made up total reports of sexual offences.

The number of investigations and what their outcome was.

How many of those under 18’s who were reported were reported to have traumatic backgrounds, for instance victims of sexual abuse or witnessing domestic violence.

D

The number of under 18’s placed on the sexual offenders registry in the last three years.

In percentage, how much these made up the total number on the register.

Response

A

Reports received by the police are recorded on an information log (Ilog). The Ilog does not record the age of the caller. We do not therefore hold the information requested in request A.

B

C

D

Two people under 18 have been placed on the sex offenders register from a total of 116 which is 1.7% of the total.

Exemptions applied

Freedom of Information (Costs) (Jersey) Regulations 2014

If the estimated cost of supplying the information would exceed the specified limit (£500 or 12.5 hours work), the scheduled authority may refuse to supply the information requested.

In this case, the States of Jersey Police have decided it would be in the public interest to answer the parts of the question that can be completed within the time / cost limits allowed. Questions not answered would exceed the £500 limit to locate and extract the information from the relevant documents or files in which it is contained.

To review each case to determine gender, outcome, history of the victim regarding, for example, traumatic experiences would take between 15 and 30 minutes per case. This would only allow between two and four cases to be reviewed per hour. To review all the cases identified would take longer than the 12.5 hour time limit allowed for each Freedom of Information request.