Child sex dolls

Freedom of Information Act Request No: 2022-173

Version Date: 16/03/2022

The Performance & Analysis Department have provided the following information:

For 2020 and 2021, please can you tell me if your force: 

1) Collects statistics on those who have been caught importing child-sized ‘sex dolls’ into the country? If so, please send me a breakdown of these statistics by sex, or failing that, by gender. 

Year	Suspect Gender	Summary
2021	Male	Seized parcel containing childlike sex doll

2) Of those who have been caught importing child-sized ‘sex dolls’ into the country, have they also been found to have child abuse images on their computer devices? If so, please can you send me a breakdown of these statistics by sex, or failing that, by gender. 

Suspect has left country and the answer to this question is not known

3) Does your force always checks the computer devices for downloads of child abuse images in the event that a person has been caught importing child-sized ‘sex dolls’?

4) In the event that your force does not check computer devices, please can you provide the rationale for not doing so? 

No information is held for the last two questions. There is no specific process and would be decided on a case to case basis