FOI 423957
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NO: 423957
I write in connection with your request for information which was received on 29th July 2025. Please find below the response to your request:
Q1) For the previous 10 years, how many domestic abuse-related reports were received where cocaine is noted in the MO field as a suspected aggravating factor?
- a) 2015
- b) 2016
- c) 2017
- d) 2018
- e) 2019
- f) 2020
- g) 2021
- h) 2022
- i) 2023
- j) 2024
- k) 2025 – latest available data
Q2) Of the suspected offenders in the reports in Q1, how many were aged under 25?
- a) 2015
- b) 2016
- c) 2017
- d) 2018
- e) 2019
- f) 2020
- g) 2021
- h) 2022
- i) 2023
- j) 2024
- k) 2025 – latest available data
Q3) For the past 10 years, please share the number of reports received by the police where a victim suspects hidden spyware, AKA stalkerware, has been installed on their device by someone else, in order to track their location or monitor their activity.
Please include search results for any of the following phrases:
'stalkerware', ‘spyware’, ‘mSpy’, and ‘tracking app’. Please do not count the same individual report more than once in the total number.
- a) 2015
- b) 2016
- c) 2017
- d) 2018
- e) 2019
- f) 2020
- g) 2021
- h) 2022
- i) 2023
- j) 2024
- k) 2025 – latest available data
Q4) Of the reports in Q3, how many of the victims were aged under 25?
- a) 2015
- b) 2016
- c) 2017
- d) 2018
- e) 2019
- f) 2020
- g) 2021
- h) 2022
- i) 2023
- j) 2024
Reply
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Question 1 |
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Calendar Year |
Number of domestic abuse-related offences with cocaine noted in MO field as an aggravating factor |
|
2019 |
42 |
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2020 |
35 |
|
2021 |
36 |
|
2022 |
39 |
|
2023 |
36 |
|
2024 |
23 |
|
2025 (Jan-Jun) |
13 |
|
Grand Total |
224 |
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Question 2 |
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Calendar Year |
Number of offences (from Qn 1) with at least one suspect under age 25 (suspect under 25 may commit more than one offence) |
|
2019 |
7 |
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2020 |
7 |
|
2021 |
9 |
|
2022 |
7 |
|
2023 |
4 |
|
2024 |
4 |
|
2025 (Jan-Jun) |
2 |
|
Grand Total |
40 |
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Calendar Year |
Number of individual suspects (from Qn 1) under age 25 committing at least one DA-related/cocaine offence |
|
2019 |
7 |
|
2020 |
6 |
|
2021 |
9 |
|
2022 |
5 |
|
2023 |
3 |
|
2024 |
3 |
|
2025 (Jan-Jun) |
2 |
|
Grand Total |
35 |
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Question 3 |
|
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Calendar Year |
Number of offences with spyware noted in MO field |
|
2019 |
9 |
|
2020 |
9 |
|
2021 |
5 |
|
2022 |
17 |
|
2023 |
14 |
|
2024 |
13 |
|
2025 (Jan-Jun) |
5 |
|
Grand Total |
72 |
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Question 4 |
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Calendar Year |
Number of offences (from Qn 3) with victim under age 25 (victim under 25 may be victim of more than one offence) |
|
2019 |
4 |
|
2020 |
6 |
|
2021 |
1 |
|
2022 |
3 |
|
2024 |
2 |
|
2025 (Jan-Jun) |
1 |
|
Grand Total |
17 |
|
Calendar Year |
Number of individual victims (from Qn 3) under age 25 who were a victim of at least one spyware-related offence |
|
2019 |
4 |
|
2020 |
5 |
|
2021 |
1 |
|
2022 |
3 |
|
2024 |
2 |
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2025 (Jan-Jun) |
1 |
|
Grand Total |
16 |
NB: There were no offences reported in 2023 where victim was aged under 25.