FOI 23533-25 Indecent exposure
Request
1a) How many reports of indecent exposure did Northamptonshire Police receive in 2020?
1b) How many reports of indecent exposure did Northamptonshire Police record as crimes in 2020?
1c) What was the outcome of each of these reports (Home Office Outcome)
2a) How many reports of indecent exposure did Northamptonshire Police receive in 2021?
2b) How many reports of indecent exposure did Northamptonshire Police record as crimes in 2021?
2c) What was the outcome of each of these reports (Home Office Outcome)
3a) How many reports of indecent exposure did Northamptonshire Police force receive in 2022?
3b) How many reports of indecent exposure did Northamptonshire Police record as crimes in 2022?
3c) What was the outcome of each of these reports (Home Office Outcome)1a) How many reports of indecent exposure did Northamptonshire Police receive in 2022?
4a) How many reports of indecent exposure did Northamptonshire Police record as crimes in 2023?
4b) How many reports of indecent exposure did Northamptonshire Police record as crimes in 2023?
4c) What was the outcome of each of these reports (Home Office Outcome)
5a) How many reports of indecent exposure did Northamptonshire Police record as crimes in 2024?
5b) How many reports of indecent exposure did Northamptonshire Police record as crimes in 2024?
5c) What was the outcome of each of these reports (Home Office Outcome)
6a) How many reports of indecent exposure have Northamptonshire Police recorded as crimes so far in 2025?
6b) How many reports of indecent exposure have Northamptonshire Police recorded as crimes so far in 2024?
6c) What has been the outcome of each of these reports (Home Office Outcome)
Response:
Northamptonshire Police records ‘Incidents’ from requests from members of the public requiring police assistance. These requests for assistance may be made via 101/999 or online submissions via the Northamptonshire Police website. Not all incident reports generate a crime report, and not all crime reports come from an incident report.
Please note that the data for questions (a) have been extracted from our incidents database and the data for (b) and (c) has been extracted from our crimes database. Our crimes and incidents database are separate recording systems and record different information.
Searched for incidents initially classified as sexual offence and closed as sexual offence with keyword search for ‘Indecent’ and ‘Exposure’ in the period 2020-11/12/2025. As with any keyword search, the search will only return exact matches. This does not account for differences in terminology and/or spelling used. Keyword searches are problematic and in no way provide accurate results or figures. If the selected key words have not been mentioned the data will not be returned. Vice versa, if the key words have been mentioned in an unrelated context irrelevant data will be collected.
Crime searched for ‘Sex – Exposure – SOA 2003’ crimes and their outcome for the years 2020-11/12/2025.
The numerical data presented in this response is an un-audited snapshot of un-published data sourced from "live" systems and is subject to the interpretation of the original request by the individual extracting the data.
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2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 |
2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
a |
115 |
118 |
179 |
170 |
157 |
197 |
|
b |
9 |
90 |
130 |
72 |
118 |
115 |
|
|
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 |
2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
1: Charged |
5 |
4 |
7 |
8 |
12 |
10 |
|
1: Summonsed/postal requisition |
3 |
4 |
9 |
3 |
15 |
|
|
1A: Alternate offence charged |
|
1 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
|
3: Adult conditional caution |
|
|
|
|
|
2 |
|
8: Community resolution |
|
3 |
|
1 |
|
|
|
11: Named suspect below age of criminal responsibility |
2 |
|
2 |
|
|
|
|
14: Victim declines/unable to support action to identify offender |
1 |
1 |
7 |
|
3 |
2 |
|
15: CPS - named suspect, victim supports but evidential difficulties |
7 |
1 |
8 |
|
1 |
|
|
15: Police - named suspect, victim supports but evidential difficulties |
24 |
26 |
25 |
13 |
36 |
28 |
|
16: Victim declines/withdraws support - named suspect identified |
16 |
12 |
17 |
12 |
17 |
12 |
|
18: Investigation complete no suspect identified |
37 |
35 |
46 |
29 |
18 |
20 |
|
20: Other body/agency has investigation primacy |
2 |
1 |
4 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
|
21: Police - named suspect, investigation not in the public interest |
|
|
1 |
|
2 |
1 |
|
UU unresolved |
|
|
|
|
3 |
36 |
|
12: Named suspect identified but is dead or too ill (physical or mental health) to prosecute |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
4 |
2 |
|
1A: Alternate offence summonsed/postal requisition |
1 |
|
|
|
1 |
|
|
3A: Alternate offence adult conditional caution |
|
|
|
|
2 |
|
|
5: Offender has died |
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that the data has been extracted from a number of data sources used by forces for police purposes. The detail collected to respond specifically to your request is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when interpreting the data.
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