FOI release

Police-recorded crimes and incidents involving Roblox

Case reference FOI2026/02103

Received 18 October 2026

Published 10 November 2026

Request

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.

Response

NIL OCCURRENCES WITHIN CITY OF LONDON POLICE

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