Violence against Women and Girls Crime report contents

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As outlined in the child abuse section of this report, the CPS supported the introduction of legislation to criminalise sexualised-messaging between adults and children. The offence of ‘Sexual Communications with a Child’ received Royal Assent on 3 March 2015 but has no commencement date at publication of this report. The CPS, police and judiciary jointly agreed to adopt nationally a new approach to prosecuting a select number of online image offenders, from 1 April 2016. The approach uses the Child Abuse Image Database (CAID) to enable low risk cases to be progressed more quickly, meaning more offenders can be prosecuted in shorter time. Revised CPS guidance on Indecent Images of Children was published in July 2016. Exploitation of vulnerable victims A police officer targeted seven domestic abuse victims over three years, exploiting their vulnerability. He sent indecent images and photographs and engaged in sexual activity with three of the victims. One victim received over 900 text messages in 13 months. He was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment. 92
Annex 1: Prosecutions by Area From 2014-15, a revised method of data interrogation and reporting has been used which provides figures for the British Transport Police (BTP) in addition to the other 42 police forces. Data for the 13 CPS Areas will not fully align with the data for the constituent police forces as there will be a small number of cross-border prosecutions between Areas as well as data from the BTP. VAWG prosecutions by CPS Areas: 2015-2016 Convictions Unsuccessful Volume % Volume % Total Cymru Wales 5,768 75.4% 1,880 24.6% 7,648 Eastern 6,008 76.2% 1,880 23.8% 7,888 East Midlands 7,076 76.2% 2,206 23.8% 9,282 London 11,197 65.0% 6,036 35.0% 17,233 Merseyside & Cheshire 5,365 80.2% 1,324 19.8% 6,689 North East 5,117 72.9% 1,901 27.1% 7,018 North West 10,319 79.0% 2,739 21.0% 13,058 South East 5,051 73.8% 1,795 26.2% 6,846 South West 4,781 73.7% 1,703 26.3% 6,484 Thames and Chiltern 4,859 72.0% 1,891 28.0% 6,750 Wessex 4,100 77.5% 1,192 22.5% 5,292 West Midlands 8,886 74.1% 3,112 25.9% 11,998 Yorkshire & Humberside 8,748 76.9% 2,634 23.1% 11,382 Total 87,275 74.2% 30,293 25.8% 117,568 93
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Grooming and social media A Police
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Controlling and coercive behaviour
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Transforming Summary Justice Transf
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Page 50 and 51: In 2015-16 88 the number of prosecu
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Page 74 and 75: Child abuse All cases of child abus
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Page 88 and 89: TOTAL 114 197 140 97 55 99 111 C Ke
Page 90 and 91: Pornography and obscenity In 2015-1
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Page 110 and 111: Homicide: Offences against the pers
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