Illegal abortion arrests

Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FIN/25/2764 

Version Date: 31/01/2025

I would like to request that you please provide data relating to arrests made by Dorset Police for procuring an illegal abortion between 1st January 2023 and 1st January 2025 and provide the following data:
 
Financial quarter of arrest (please also confirm the date range of each quarter, e.g Quarter 1= 1st January - 31st March)

Ethnicity of suspect- e.g  White British/White Irish/Black British/Black African etc
Sex/Gender of suspect- Male/Female
Age of suspect
Outcome description e.g- Charged/Summonsed/Community Resolution/Not yet assigned an outcome

The Performance & Analysis Department have provided the following information.

We have searched the Niche Crime database for the offence description “Procuring Illegal Abortion” which returned no results

We ran another search with the keyword search of “Illegal abortion” in the occurrence text fields and this returned two occurrences.

Neither of the two occurrences have any arrests linked to them.