2022/25005 - AirBnB and TikTok crimes 2021

REQUEST

 

1) In the 2021 calendar year how many crimes were logged by your force where Airbnb was recorded as being an element in the offence?

 

[Note: I would hope that this could be achieved by a computer search on the MO of crimes for the word/s ‘airbnb’, ‘air bnb’, ‘air-bnb’ and ‘air bandb’.

2) Please provide me with a table showing a breakdown of the crimes from Question 1 that are ‘linked’ to Airbnb by its mention in the MO.

3) Please provide me with copies of the first 10 MOs that mention Airbnb. 

 

[Note: To avoid falling into an exemption I am content for the names, ages, geography or any other detail to be redacted to allow for the disclosure of the incident and how it relates to Airbnb.]

4) Could you please go through the same process in answering Question 1, 2 and 3 but instead of Airbnb please carry out the process in relation to the website Tik Tok?

 

 

RESPONSE

 

1 & 2.

The table above provides data on the number of crimes recorded in 2021 based on keyword searches of ‘airbnb’, ‘air-bnb’, ‘air bnb’, ‘air bandb’, ‘air b&b’, ‘b'n'b’ and ‘bed and breakfast’.

3) Please provide me with copies of the first 10 MOs that mention Airbnb. 

 

[Note: To avoid falling into an exemption I am content for the names, ages, geography or any other detail to be redacted to allow for the disclosure of the incident and how it relates to Airbnb.]

 

The table above provides the MO summaries for the offences in relation to question 1 (Airbnb). Please note that all personal information has been removed from the summaries.

Section 40(2) Personal Information

 

The exemption applicable to the information you have requested for this question can be found at Section 40(2) Personal Information, of the Act and this refusal notice is issued under Section 17.

 

Gwent Police is withholding the information you have requested on the basis that the exemption contained in s 40(2) of the Freedom of Information Act applies in that the information you have requested is personal data of third parties and the disclosure of the data would breach one of the principles contained in the Data Protection Act. The relevant principle is the first principle which states that:

Personal data shall be processed fairly and lawfully and in particular shall not be processed unless –

(a) at least one of the conditions in Schedule 2 is met and

(b) in the case of sensitive personal data, at least one of the conditions in Schedule 3 is met

It is only necessary to consider (a) in respect of the information requested. The relevant condition in Schedule 2 is condition 6 which states that:

"The processing is necessary for the purposes of legitimate interests pursued by the data controller or by the third party or parties to whom the data are disclosed, except where the processing is unwarranted in any particular case by reason of prejudice to the rights and freedoms or legitimate interests of the data subject"

 

4) Could you please go through the same process in answering Question 1, 2 and 3 but instead of Airbnb please carry out the process in relation to the website Tik Tok?

 

The table above provides data on the number of crimes recorded in 2021 based on keyword searches of ‘tiktok’, ‘tik tok’, ‘tik-tok’, ‘ticktock’ and ‘tick tock’.

The table above provides the MO summaries for the offences in relation to the TikTok website. Please note that all personal information has been removed from the summaries.

 

Section 40(2) Personal Information

 

The exemption applicable to the information you have requested for this question can be found at Section 40(2) Personal Information, of the Act and this refusal notice is issued under Section 17.

 

Gwent Police is withholding the information you have requested on the basis that the exemption contained in s 40(2) of the Freedom of Information Act applies in that the information you have requested is personal data of third parties and the disclosure of the data would breach one of the principles contained in the Data Protection Act. The relevant principle is the first principle which states that:

Personal data shall be processed fairly and lawfully and in particular shall not be processed unless –

(a) at least one of the conditions in Schedule 2 is met and

(b) in the case of sensitive personal data, at least one of the conditions in Schedule 3 is met

It is only necessary to consider (a) in respect of the information requested. The relevant condition in Schedule 2 is condition 6 which states that:

"The processing is necessary for the purposes of legitimate interests pursued by the data controller or by the third party or parties to whom the data are disclosed, except where the processing is unwarranted in any particular case by reason of prejudice to the rights and freedoms or legitimate interests of the data subject"