2022/25268 - FOI Abortion related crimes by females
REQUEST
I am writing to submit a request under the Freedom of Information Act for data on abortion-related crimes recorded by the police force between March 2014 and March 2022
Part 1
Please tell me how many females were investigated for abortion-related crimes under the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act during this time.
For each of these crimes I would also like the following specific information provided:
- The subsection of the Act the female was investigated under ie:
- Administering drugs or using instruments to procure an abortion, or
- Procuring drugs/instruments to cause an abortion
- Whether the female suspect was the pregnant party, and was thus investigated on suspicion of procuring or attempting to procure her own abortion
- The ethnicity of the suspect
- The age of the suspect
- The month and year the offence was recorded
- The outcome recorded (including no outcome recorded, where relevant)
Part 2
I would also like data on how many females were investigated for intentional destruction of a viable unborn child under the 1929 Infant Life (Preservation) Act. For these crimes, please tell me:
- Whether the female suspect was the pregnant party, and was thus investigated on suspicion of destroying her own child
- The ethnicity of the suspect
- The age of the suspect
- The month and year the offence was recorded
- The outcome recorded (including no outcome recorded, where relevant)
Please provide the data in a machine readable format. I would suggest a spreadsheet with the following columns:
A - Month
B - Calendar year
C - Offence (eg administering drugs/instrument, procuring drugs/instrument, or child destruction)
D - Pregnant party (true or false)
E - Ethnicity
F - Age
G - Outcome
RESPONSE
Part 1 - There were no offences with the titles named above recorded from 2017 – 2022.
Part 2 – There were no offences with the title named above recorded from 2017 – 2022.