Public Indecency (FOI Ref: 618A/25)

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Request

Please provide the following details for all recorded incidents of public indecency from 1st January 2022 to the present date:

A breakdown of the nature of each public indecency offense, including but not limited to:

Public sexual acts (including specifics such as intercourse, oral, or anal sex)
Indecent exposure/flashing
Public masturbation
Other forms of public indecency (please specify)

The date and time of each recorded incident.
The specific location of each incident (e.g., park, street name, shopping area, public transport).
The outcome of each case, including:

Arrests made
Cautions issued
Charges brought and case outcomes (conviction, dropped, ongoing investigation, etc.)

We clarified with you on 24^th March and you replied the same day. Your amended request reads:

For the time period

1st Jan 2022 to current date.

Q1. Recorded crime for the following offences (in calendar year by offence):

Act of outraging public indecency (CJS code COMLO62 / Home office code 066/21)

Sexual Activity in a public lavatory (CJS code SX 03/30 / Home office code 175/04)

Exposure (CKS code SX03138 / home office code 088/09

Q2. Please provide the outcomes of the cases results in question 1.

Response

Please find enclosed our response.

Q1. Recorded crime for the following offences (in calendar year by offence):

Act of outraging public indecency (CJS code COMLO62 / Home office code 066/21)

Sexual Activity in a public lavatory (CJS code SX 03/30 / Home office code 175/04)

Exposure (CKS code SX03138 / home office code 088/09

There were no results for sexual activity in a public lavatory.

Years	Date Record Created	Committing or conspiring to commit, an act outraging public decency	Exposure	Grand Total
2022	Jan	15	21	36
	Feb	29	23	52
	Mar	21	23	44
	Apr	24	40	64
	May	20	51	71
	Jun	26	33	59
	Jul	32	42	74
	Aug	24	41	65
	Sep	22	38	60
	Oct	18	41	59
	Nov	12	27	39
	Dec	10	14	24
2022 Total		253	394	647
2023	Jan	16	32	48
	Feb	16	23	39
	Mar	19	36	55
	Apr	19	42	61
	May	40	56	96
	Jun	28	42	70
	Jul	30	41	71
	Aug	17	48	65
	Sep	35	45	80
	Oct	27	57	84
	Nov	13	38	51
	Dec	10	34	44
2023 Total		270	494	764
2024	Jan	21	23	44
	Feb	16	28	44
	Mar	24	38	62
	Apr	23	36	59
	May	41	38	79
	Jun	38	48	86
	Jul	39	51	90
	Aug	30	55	85
	Sep	30	37	67
	Oct	19	39	58
	Nov	24	31	55
	Dec	19	29	48
2024 Total		324	453	777
2025	Jan	18	30	48
	Feb	32	29	61
	Mar	21	27	48
2025 Total		71	86	157
Grand Total		918	1427	2345

Q2. Please provide the outcomes of the cases results in question 1.

Committing or conspiring to commit, an act outraging public decency

Year 2022

Outcome Description	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
not recorded	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Caution – Adult (Inc Conditional Caution)	0	1	1	1	0	1	3	0	1	0	0	0
Charge or Summons	2	1	1	1	5	1		3	3	2	1
Community Resolution	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Evidential Difficulties - Victim Based - Named suspect not identified	1	1	1	2	1	2	1	1	0	2	1	0
Further action will be taken by another body	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Investigation Complete: No suspect identified	9	15	8	13	7	16	16	11	11	4	4	5
Named Suspect identified: evidential difficulties prevent further action (no victim support)	0	6	3	4	3	2	7	5	4	1	2	4
Named Suspect identified: evidential difficulties prevent further action (victim support)	2	4	5	3	4	4	4	4	3	6	4	1
Prosecution prevented – Named suspect identified but is too ill (physical or mental health) to prosecute	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Grand Total	15	29	21	24	20	26	32	24	22	18	12	10

Committing or conspiring to commit, an act outraging public decency

Year 2023

Outcome Description	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Caution – Adult (Inc Conditional Caution)	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	0
Charge or Summons	0	2	1	3	5	4	2	0	2	1	2	0
Evidential Difficulties - Victim Based - Named suspect not identified	1	1	2	1	3	5	4	3	2	5	1	1
Formal action against the offender is not in the public interest (Police)	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Investigation Complete: No suspect identified	8	4	9	6	18	7	13	9	18	9	5	5
Named Suspect identified: evidential difficulties prevent further action (no victim support)	4	4	4	1	4	8	6	2	5	5	1	3
Named Suspect identified: evidential difficulties prevent further action (victim support)	3	5	2	7	10	2	5	2	7	6	4	1
Prosecution prevented – Named suspect identified but is too ill (physical or mental health) to prosecute	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Grand Total	16	16	19	19	40	28	30	17	35	27	13	10

Committing or conspiring to commit, an act outraging public decency. For Year 2024.

Outcome Description	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
not recorded	0	0	0	0	2	2	2	1	2	2	2	2
Caution – Adult (Inc Conditional Caution)	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	2
Charge or Summons	4	4	3	2	7	8	5	5	2	2	6	2
Community Resolution	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Evidential Difficulties - Victim Based - Named suspect not identified	0	1	2	3	3	4	6	5	1		1	1
Further action will be taken by another body	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Investigation Complete: No suspect identified	10	8	9	5	7	9	7	4	6	5	5	4
Named Suspect identified: evidential difficulties prevent further action (no victim support)	3	1	5	7	16	9	7	6	11	5	4	5
Named Suspect identified: evidential difficulties prevent further action (victim support)	3	1	5	6	6	4	12	7	8	4	6	3
Grand Total	21	16	24	23	41	38	39	30	30	19	24	19

Committing or conspiring to commit, an act outraging public decency

Year 2025

Outcome Description	Jan	Feb	Mar
not recorded	3	7	9
Caution – Adult (Inc Conditional Caution)	1	0	1
Charge or Summons	1	4
Evidential Difficulties - Victim Based - Named suspect not identified	4	5	1
Investigation Complete: No suspect identified	5	6	4
Named Suspect identified: evidential difficulties prevent further action (no victim support)	2	8	3
Named Suspect identified: evidential difficulties prevent further action (victim support)	2	2	3
Grand Total	18	32	21

Exposure For year 2022

Outcome Description	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Caution – Adult (Inc Conditional Caution)	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Charge or Summons	0	4	1	0	2	2	2	2	1	3	1	1
Community Resolution	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Evidential Difficulties - Victim Based - Named suspect not identified	1	2	5	5	2	3	5	5	2	1	1	0
Formal action against the offender is not in the public interest (Police)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Further action will be taken by another body	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Investigation Complete: No suspect identified	4	7	2	3	20	11	12	10	10	16	9	5
Named Suspect identified: evidential difficulties prevent further action (no victim support)	8	5	10	21	10	12	15	12	16	14	8	5
Named Suspect identified: evidential difficulties prevent further action (victim support)	8	5	5	11	16	5	7	11	8	6	8	2
Grand Total	21	23	23	40	51	33	42	41	38	41	27	14

Exposure

For year 2023

Outcome Description	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Not recorded	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	1
Caution – Adult (Inc Conditional Caution)	1	0	1	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0
Charge or Summons	2	3	5	2	10	3		4	1	4	3	1
Community Resolution
Diversionary, educational or intervention activity, resulting from the crime report, has been undertaken and it is not in the public interest to take any further action	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Evidential Difficulties - Victim Based - Named suspect not identified	2	3	2	6	5	2	3	2	5	8	2	1
Further action will be taken by another body	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	1
Investigation Complete: No suspect identified	6	5	7	7	14	11	15	13	12	13	10	6
Named Suspect identified: evidential difficulties prevent further action (no victim support)	11	6	10	20	15	15	14	16	16	20	11	19
Named Suspect identified: evidential difficulties prevent further action (victim support)	10	5	10	6	11	11	9	12	8	10	9	4
Grand Total	32	23	36	42	56	42	41	48	45	57	38	34

Exposure

For Year 2024

Outcome Description	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
not recorded	0	0	1	1	0	2	0	1	2	2	3	0
Caution – Adult (Inc Conditional Caution)	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	0
Caution - Youth (Inc Conditional Caution)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Charge or Summons	2	6	2	3	4	4	3	7	1	2	4	6
Community Resolution	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0
Evidential Difficulties - Victim Based - Named suspect not identified	2	2	4	1	0	5	5	3	2	1	3	2
Further action will be taken by another body	0	1	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	1		1
Investigation Complete: No suspect identified	7	5	10	6	5	7	14	12	7	6	8	3
Named Suspect identified: evidential difficulties prevent further action (no victim support)	7	7	14	18	18	17	16	15	16	20	8	8
Named Suspect identified: evidential difficulties prevent further action (victim support)	3	6	7	6	10	12	12	16	7	6	4	9
Grand Total	23	28	38	36	38	48	51	55	37	39	31	29

Exposure

For year 2025

Outcome Description	Jan	Feb	Mar
not recorded	5	3	11
Caution - Youth (Inc Conditional Caution)
Charge or Summons	1	2	4
Community Resolution
Evidential Difficulties - Victim Based - Named suspect not identified	1	3	1
Further action will be taken by another body	1	0	0
Investigation Complete: No suspect identified	5	5	4
Named Suspect identified: evidential difficulties prevent further action (no victim support)	13	7	1
Named Suspect identified: evidential difficulties prevent further action (victim support)	4	9	6
Grand Total	30	29	27

Please note that this data should be interpreted with caution. Comparing numbers of incidents/crimes can be misleading and does not necessarily indicate the likelihood of someone being a victim of crime. In addition, the number of incidents/crimes recorded in an area over a period of time can be influenced by a number of factors. Consequently, statistics on incidents/crimes for one period may not necessarily be a good indicator of future incidents in that area.

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 considered 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 considered 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.

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Public Indecency (FOI Ref: 618A/25)