2022/25412 - Animal abuse incidents and crimes involving social media
REQUEST
1) For the calendar year 2021, please tell me how many incidents and crimes of animal abuse* you have recorded in which one of the following social media sites was named in the MO and/or the Investigation Summary Field
- TikTok
- YouTube
*By animal abuse, I’m referring to any of the following:
|
Crime type |
Home Office classification |
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Causing, permitting or failing to prevent unnecessary suffering of protected animal |
97/01 |
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Carrying out, permitting, causing to be carried out or failing to prevent prohibited procedure on a protected animal |
97/02 |
|
Removing or causing or permitting or failing to prevent removal of dog’s tail other than for medical treatment |
97/03 |
|
Administration of poisons etc to a protected animal |
97/04 |
|
Offences relating to animal fights |
97/05 |
|
Intercourse with an animal by a male |
88/3 |
|
Intercourse with an animal by a female |
88/4 |
|
Possession of extreme pornographic images – person performing an act of intercourse or oral sex with an animal (dead or alive) |
86/14 |
2) For each social media site, could you please give a sub-total of the number of times they were mentioned in the MO and/or Investigation Summary Field in an animal abuse incident or crime, broken down by Home Office Classification codes?
3) Finally, could you please provide me with copies of the MOs and/or Investigation Summary Fields (depending on what is available) for the ten most recent crimes and incidents identified in the search (excluding any that are subject to ongoing investigation)? Please redact any details that cannot be disclosed for privacy reasons, etc.
RESPONSE
We have checked the above for the offences listed, this returned 3 results for the offence codes 88/4 and 86/14 for the year 2021. We have then checked each MO summary for the key words listed above, this returned zero results.