Freedom of information (FOI) releases from City of London Police

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  1. Date range Please provide information covering: 1 January 2020 to the date of your search. If your systems use financial years or another established reporting period, please use that format where this makes extraction easier. Search term To keep the request straightforward and minimise the burden on the force, please use only the following keyword: Roblox I am specifically asking for an electronic keyword search of existing searchable records rather than a manual review of individual case files. Where technically possible, please search the term within relevant searchable fields including: - crime/offence descriptions; - modus operandi (MO) / MO remarks; - occurrence summaries; - incident summaries; - searchable free-text fields; - structured platform/application fields; - intelligence records; - safeguarding records; - investigation records; - missing-person records where searchable. Information requested Please provide: 1. Recorded crimes The total number of recorded crime records in which "Roblox" appears, broken down by calendar year or other existing reporting period. 2. Offence types For each relevant year/period, please provide the offence type/category and, where available: - Home Office offence code; - offence title; - offence classification/group; - number of recorded offences. 3. Incidents Separately provide the number of recorded incidents containing the term "Roblox", by year/period where available. 4. Investigations If your force has a routine electronic search capability for investigation/case-management records, please provide the number of investigations containing "Roblox", by year/period where available. Child protection and relevant offending Where your electronic search identifies the relevant offence category, please provide aggregate figures for records involving, for example: - sexual offences; - offences against children; - grooming; - sexual communication with a child; - child sexual exploitation; - indecent images / child sexual abuse material; - sexual extortion / sextortion; - coercion or blackmail; - threats; - harassment or stalking; - violence; - missing children; - safeguarding-related incidents. I am not asking officers or staff to manually determine whether an offence was actually caused by Roblox. I am asking what existing searchable police records contain the term "Roblox" and what offence/incident classification those records already carry. Police systems Please identify which relevant systems were searched and provide the results separately where reasonably available. This should include, where applicable: - Niche RMS / Niche - CONNECT - Athena - STORM or equivalent command-and-control/incident system - CRIS or relevant historical crime-recording system - ViSOR (Violent and Sex Offender Register) - force crime-recording systems - incident/command-and-control systems - police intelligence systems - safeguarding systems - missing-person systems - investigation/case-management systems - any other electronically searchable records-management system routinely holding relevant records. I appreciate that not every force uses every system listed above. Please simply identify the systems actually used by your force that are relevant to the request. ViSOR specifically Please confirm: 1. Whether "Roblox" can be electronically searched within the ViSOR system available to the force; 2. Whether such a search was undertaken; 3. If searchable, the aggregate number of ViSOR records containing "Roblox", preferably by year; 4. Whether records containing the term can be electronically linked or cross-referenced with associated crime, incident, investigation or safeguarding records; 5. If ViSOR cannot be searched in this manner, please state this clearly. I recognise that ViSOR is a specialist offender-management system rather than the primary crime-recording system. I am not requesting any personal or identifying information about individuals recorded on ViSOR. Historical systems If the force has changed crime-recording or case-management systems during the requested period, please identify the current and relevant historical systems. If historical data is no longer electronically searchable, please state this rather than undertaking a manual review. Counting methodology Please state: - which date field was used to allocate records to each year; - whether cancelled crimes are included or excluded; - whether multiple offences within one crime record are counted separately; - whether incidents and crimes are counted separately; - whether investigations are counted separately; - whether the same record containing multiple occurrences of the word "Roblox" is counted only once. Section 12 / cost limit I have deliberately designed this request around a single electronic keyword search for "Roblox" and aggregate extraction from existing records. I am not requesting a manual examination of individual files, case papers, statements, digital devices or evidential material. If any element of this request would exceed the appropriate cost limit under section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please provide advice and assistance under section 16. In particular, if searching specialist systems such as ViSOR or historical systems would exceed the limit, please provide the available recorded-crime figures from the principal crime-recording system rather than refusing the entire request. If the complete period cannot reasonably be searched, please advise what narrower period, system or part of the request could be answered within the cost limit. Existing reports or datasets If any of the requested information has already been extracted for an FOI response, management report, safeguarding report, intelligence assessment, dashboard, spreadsheet or other existing statistical product, please provide the existing information rather than undertaking a new analysis. An electronic response in Excel, CSV or table format would be preferred where available. No names, addresses, dates of birth, suspect details, victim details or other personal data are requested. The request is solely for aggregate statistical information and information about the systems/search methodology used.

    Published: 10 November 2026

  2. SCOPE All offences recorded by City of London Police under Home Office classification code 8/21, also written 008/21, owner or person in charge allowing a dog to be dangerously out of control in any place in England or Wales, whether or not a public place, injuring any person or assistance dog, contrary to section 3(1) of the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 as amended by the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014. PERIOD Seven complete financial years, April 1, 2019 to March 31, 2026. REQUESTED INFORMATION 1. The total number of offences recorded under code 8/21 in each of those seven financial years. 2. The same totals broken down by local authority district, Community Safety Partnership area or Basic Command Unit, whichever your force holds as standard, for each of those financial years. 3. The same totals broken down by victim age band for each of those financial years, using whatever standard age bands your force applies. If age band data is not readily retrievable, a split between victims aged under 18 and victims aged 18 and over would be sufficient.

    Published: 10 November 2026

  3. This is a NEW Freedom of Information Act 2000 request, separate from FOI2026/01565 and subject access request DPR2026/01566. Please provide information held by City of London Police concerning its processes for identifying repeated concerns about police officers, specifically: 1. Current policies, SOPs or guidance governing checks of prior complaints, misconduct or conduct concerns when a new complaint concerns a stop and search, detention, use of force or discrimination. 2. Current threshold criteria for supervisory escalation, misconduct referral, remedial training or organisational learning where repeated complaints or themes are identified. 3. Any policy describing how findings and civil claims resolved by admissions or settlements are considered in organisational learning and later complaints handling. 4. For the latest three completed financial years, already-held force-wide anonymised annual complaint statistics categorised as stops/stop-and-search, use of force, unlawful detention and discrimination, with already-held outcome breakdowns and field definitions where available.

    Published: 10 November 2026

  4. Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please provide the following information concerning offences recorded under these Home Office offence classifications: - 008/71 - 008/72 - 175/08 - 088/14 - 088/15 - 175/09 - 175/10 - 086/02 Please report classification 008/72 separately from the classifications listed above. For any classification that did not exist throughout the full period, please provide figures only from the date on which it came into use For each classification, please provide the number of offences recorded in each of the following periods: - 2019 - 2020 - 2021 - 2022 - 2023 - 2024 - 2025 - 1 January to 30 September 2026 Please use the calendar year in which the offence was recorded, rather than the year in which the incident occurred or an outcome was assigned. Please include zero values where applicable. 2) Additionally, for each code listed above, please provide the number of offences each year split by their currently recorded outcome. 3) Additionally, for each code listed above, please provide the number of offences recorded split by victim gender 4) Additionally, for each code listed above, please provide the number of linked victim records by the victim's age at the time of the offence, using the following bands: - under 10; - 10-14; - 15-17; - 18-24; - 25-34; - 35-44; - 45-54; - 55-64; - 65 and over; - unknown or not recorded. If these bands cannot be generated directly from structured data, please use the force's existing standard age bands and define the bands supplied. For classification 086/02, please provide only information available from structured linked-victim records. I am not asking the force to infer a victim's age or other characteristics from images, narratives or case files. CSV or XLSX format would be preferred where readily available. I am content for small figures to be suppressed or combined into broader age bands where necessary, provided that overall totals are retained.

    Published: 10 November 2026

  5. Please may you provide me with: the latest information held on crime relating to tool theft in the City of London Police Force area between 1st October 2025 and 30th September 2026 (or the most recent 12-month period you have available). Information should include, 1) Total number of instances of tool theft reported across the year = 2) Total value of tool theft reported across the year = 3) Average value of tools theft reported within the year timeframe = 4) Any additional breakdown of where the tool theft took place (for example, number of thefts from vehicles, number from home, number from a workplace, number from a construction site) = Please provide the information in electronic format, in either a CSV or Excel file. Alternatively, you can add the figures next to each numbered bullet point above in your reply.

    Published: 9 November 2026

  6. I am writing to request the following information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000: The number of motorists caught driving while not wearing a seatbelt for the years 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026 to date. a. b. c. Please can this be broken down by age, age and gender, and month of offence for each year. d. e. f. g. If time allows, please also provide the number of offences broken down by age and time of day, e.g. 12am - 1am, 1am, - 2am, etc. h. i. j. k. If you're unable to break down by hours of the day, please provide for day time / night time offences, e.g. 7pm - 7am, 7am - 7pm l. If any part of this request would exceed the appropriate cost limit under section 12 of the Act, I would be grateful if you could contact me to discuss how it might be narrowed, rather than refusing it outright. I would prefer to receive the information as: spreadsheet/CSV where the information is structured data.

    Published: 5 November 2026

  7. Under the Freedom of Information Act, I would like to request the following information regarding the offence of sending or showing flashing images with intent to harm, created under Section 183 of the Online Safety Act 2023 (commonly referred to as "epilepsy trolling"). This may be recorded under offence code 00529. For the period from 31 January 2024 to the present date, please provide: 1. 2. 3. The total number of individuals arrested for this offence. 4. 5. 6. 7. A breakdown of those arrested by age (e.g. under 18, 18-24, 25-34, 35-44, 45-54, 55+). 8. 9. 10. 11. A breakdown of those arrested by gender (e.g. male or female). 12.

    Published: 5 November 2026

  8. Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would like to request the following information. Please provide the number of romance fraud reports received through Action Fraud and its successor service, Report Fraud, in calendar year 2025 and calendar year 2019, broken down by: (a) victim sex (b) victim age band (under 25, 25–34, 35–44, 45–54, 55–64, 65+) For 2025, please combine reports made to both services. If you cannot break down by both sex and age together, a separate breakdown by each is fine. If this request would exceed the appropriate cost limit, please advise me under section 16 what information you could provide within it. Yours faithfully, James Bayley

    Published: 5 November 2026

  9. 1) How many reported thefts from vehicles have been recorded at addresses/ car parks containing 'Premier Inn' over the past five calendar years (2021-2025)? - Please break the figures down by calendar year, and separately include this year up to 30 September 2026. - If possible, please also breakdown the figures by incident type e.g. theft of tools. 2) How many reported thefts from vehicles have been recorded at addresses/ car parks containing 'Travelodge' over the past five calendar years (2021-2025)? - Please break the figures down by calendar year, and separately include this year up to 30 September 2026. - If possible, please also breakdown the figures by incident type e.g. theft of tools.

    Published: 5 November 2026

  10. I am writing to request the following information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000: The number of motorists caught using a mobile phone while driving for the years 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026 to date. a. b. c. Please can this be broken down by age, age and gender, and month of offence for each year. d. e. f. g. If time allows, please also provide the number of offences broken down by age and time of day, e.g. 12am - 1am, 1am, - 2am, etc. h. i. j. k. If you're unable to break down by hours of the day, please provide for day time / night time offences, e.g. 7pm - 7am, 7am - 7pm l.

    Published: 5 November 2026