2025 28335 Street Harassment

REQUEST

Please could you confirm:

a) How many incidents of street harassment were reported to your force in the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 respectively.
b) How many of the alleged victims for each year were male and how many were female.
c) How many of the alleged perpetrators for each year were male and how many were female.
CLARIFICATION NEEDED FROM REQUESTOR 20/03/25
We have clarified your request with our research team and there is no specific offence of street harassment – in order to provide / answer your response we require you to provide us with the offences you are interested in – to assist please find below the CPS guidance around street harassment.
https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/cps-sets-out-law-street-based-sexual-harassment

CLARIFICATION RECIEVED FROM REQUESTOR 20/03/25

Thank you for your email. I am interested in the following:
Catcalling and wolf-whistling; Following, persistent following, cornering and isolating; leering or persistent staring; Sexual gestures; Sexual questioning, sexually explicit comments, intrusive persistent questioning.
Viewing pornography in public

(Public Order Act 1986, s4a and s5)
Exposure
(Sexual Offences Act 2003 s66)
Upskirting; Voyeurism
(Sexual Offences Act 2003 s67)

RESPONSE