Communications offences
Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FIN/24/002532/Z
Version Date: 20/11/2024
The Performance Analysis Department have provided the following information.
To obtain the data searches were completed on Niche for arrests made with the following offence CJS codes. These codes have been obtained online as offences are not recorded within our systems by their Acts.
Communications Act:
- CA03005
- CA03006
- CA03007
- CA03008
- CA03009
Malicious Communications Act:
- MT88001
- MT88002
- MT88003
- MT88004
- MT88005
- MT88006
- MT88007
- MT88008
I would like to know how many arrests you made under Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 in the following years: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and the first nine months of 2024. Please can you provide separate figures for each year.
|
Year |
Count |
|
2017 |
9 |
|
2019 |
6 |
|
2020 |
16 |
|
2021 |
22 |
|
2022 |
29 |
|
2023 |
25 |
|
2024 (01/01/24 – 30/09/24) |
13 |
|
Grand Total |
120 |
In a separate table, please can you provide the number of arrests you made under Section 1 of the Malicious Communications Act 1988, over the same time period and in the same year-by-year breakdown.
|
Year |
Count |
|
2017 |
11 |
|
2019 |
1 |
|
2020 |
1 |
|
2021 |
8 |
|
2022 |
16 |
|
2023 |
4 |
|
2024 (01/01/24 – 30/09/24) |
4 |
|
Grand Total |
45 |