FOI 4168-25 Airtasker, Taskrabbit UK or Thumbtack

Request:

1. How many reports of offences linked to the app "Airtasker", "Taskrabbit UK" or "Thumbtack" have you received in the past four calendar years (1st January 2021 - when this request was processed) in your force's area.

1a. Please break down the data by year.

1b. Please break down the data by the following offence groups:
Theft offences, Violence against the person, Robbery, Sexual offences, Fraud and economic crime offences, Cyber crime, Hate crime

Response:

Northamptonshire Police systems are designed primarily for the management of individual cases and not for the production of statistical information for Freedom Of Information responses.

Crime searched between calendar years 2021-2024 inclusive for all occurrences with keywords searched within the MO Free Text field: ‘AIRTASKER’, ‘AIR TASKER’, ‘TASKRABBIT’, ‘TASK RABBIT’, ‘THUMBTACK’, ‘THUMB TACK’.

I can confirm this produced a nil response.

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 in the MO the data will not be returned.