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Domestic and sexual abuse statistics and funding (FOI)

Domestic and sexual abuse statistics and funding (FOI)

Produced by the Freedom of Information office
Authored by Government of Jersey and published on 11 February 2022.
Prepared internally, no external costs.

Request

I would like to request the following information:

A

The number of reports of sexual offences in Jersey over the past five years broken down by age (aged under 18 or over) and gender of victims. (Broken down by year).

B

The number of recorded sexual offences in Jersey over the past five years broken down by age (aged under 18 or over) and gender of victims. (Broken down by year).

C

The number of police call outs for domestic abuse incidents over the past five years, broken down by year.

D

The number of recorded domestic abuse incidents over the past five years, broken down by year.

E

The total number of domestic abuse related offences recorded that resulted in arrests, charges of summons. (Broken down by year).

F

How much funding went to domestic abuse and sexual assault charities - Jersey Women's Refuge and Jersey Action Against Rape (JAAR) in over the past five years? (Broken down by year).

Response

A

"Reports", as opposed to "recorded" sexual offences do not provide an accurate picture. For example, officers may initially be called to a domestic incident, only for one of the parties to later disclose a sexual assault. Such initial reporting would likely to be categorised as a "domestic incident". To provide an accurate number of "reports" would require a manual search of almost 100,000 incident logs, and the time required to undertake this task would exceed the 12½ hours maximum time limit as provided by Article 16(1) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011. A response to this question is declined.

B

Number of recorded sexual offences (includes indecent images of children)​

Age of victim

Victim gender

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

Under 18 years


Male

9

11

11

10

17

Female

64

62

63

39

50

Not provided

1

 

 

 

 

Over 18 years

Male

7

4

8

8

10

Female

72

75

78

60

84

Total victims identified¹

 

153

152

160

117

161

All sexual  offences  

 

191

195

206

134

167

¹Home Office counting rules dictate that for the age of a victim to be recorded, the victim or victims need to be identified. Examples of sexual offences where no victim is recorded include incidents of indecent exposure in a crowded space (where no one individual is targeted by the offender), and indecent images of children where the unidentified victims may be in an unknown foreign jurisdiction.

C, D and E

 

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

Police call outs for domestic abuse²

609

740

929

849

770

Recorded incidents of domestic abuse

This information is already available within a previously published Freedom of Information request: Domestic abuse statistics for the last five years (FOI)

Article 23 has been applied.​


1149

Recorded domestic crime

402

No. persons arrested³


242

298

299

278

239

No. persons charged


106

109

116

100

83

² Not all recorded incidents of domestic abuse follow from a police call out. For example, officers may be called to an apparently non-domestic related incident, and only later, through enquiries, would a domestic element become apparent. Likewise, a patrolling officer may come across a domestic incident on the street.

³ This is the number of arrests linked to a case file which includes both a crime file and a domestic incident.

F

Funds transferred to the Women's Refuge and Jersey Action Against Rape (JAAR) (£)

 

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

Total

Women's Refuge

191,802

209,196

266,212

276,866

231,474

1,175,549

JAAR

12,570

8,923

232

50

23,471

45,246

Total

204,372

218,119

266,444

276,916

254,944

1,220,795

 

Articles Applied

Article 16(1) - A scheduled public authority may refuse to supply information if cost excessive

A scheduled public authority that has been requested to supply information may refuse to supply the information if it estimates that the cost of doing so would exceed an amount determined in the manner prescribed by Regulations [Freedom of Information (Costs) (Jersey) Regulations 2014].

Article 23 - Information accessible to applicant by other means

(1)     Information is absolutely exempt information if it is reasonably available to the applicant, otherwise than under this Law, whether or not free of charge.

(2)     A scheduled public authority that refuses an application for information on this ground must make reasonable efforts to inform the applicant where the applicant may obtain the information.


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