Digital domestic abuse (FOI ref: 1773A/25)

Request

Could I please have the information from 2022, 2023 and 2024?

1. The number of crimes recorded considered to be digital domestic abuse within, for example, this framework: Digital domestic abuse | Metropolitan Police

a) Out of these, how many resulted in arrests?

b) How many of these resulted in a charge?

Response

1. The number of crimes recorded considered to be digital domestic abuse within, for example, this framework: Digital domestic abuse | Metropolitan Police

We do not have a specific crime classification on our systems called ‘digital domestic abuse’. Domestic abuse crimes are recorded in accordance with the Home Office Counting Rules, and additional markers or flags are sometimes applied to indicate circumstances such as whether the offence was committed online.

Therefore, in order to provide the closest available information, we have interpreted your request to mean domestic abuse offences where an ‘Online Crime’ marker has been applied. See as follows:

Table 1 – Count of Domestic Abuse offences with and ‘Online Crime’ marker:

a) Out of these, how many resulted in arrests?

Table 2 – Count of offences in Table 1 above resulting in an arrest:

b) How many of these resulted in a charge?

Table 3 - Count of arrests in Table 2 above have resulted in a charge

Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that this data has been extracted from a number of data sources used by forces for police purposes. The detail collected to respond specifically to your request may be subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when interpreting the data.

The figures provided therefore are our best interpretation of data which has relevance to your request, but you should be aware that the collation of figures for ad hoc requests may have limitations and this should be taken into account when those data are used.

If you decide to write an article / use the enclosed data we would ask you to take into consideration the factors highlighted in this document so as to not mislead members of the public or official bodies, or misrepresent the relevance of the whole or any part of this disclosed material.