Digital domestic abuse

Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FIN/25/3650 

Version Date: 19/09/2025

The Performance Analysis Department has provided the following information.

Data Source:
Niche crime information system

Data Processing:
Search for all occurrences which had the Domestic Abuse (ACPO) Crime Flag and the Cyber Crime Flag.
To get the arrested and charged information, I linked the occurrences from part one into a query with the ‘arrested’ filter for a, and the ‘latest stats class status is ‘charged’’ filter and the Person Link Involvement as ‘Charged’ for part b.

Caveat/Data Limitations:

Data is dependent on the correct and accurate use of flags and flagging of crimes may not always be accurate. To manually review all the data and check for accuracy would take this request over the 18-hour fee limit.

The number of crimes recorded considered to be digital domestic abuse within, for example, this framework: https://www.met.police.uk/advice/advice-and-information/daa/domestic-abuse/digital-domestic-abuse/

 a) Out of these, how many resulted in arrests?

b) How many of these resulted in a conviction?

Please Note: The Police don’t hold details of convictions – That data is held by the Courts

The table below shows the number of offences with an outcome of Charged

Could I please have the information from 2022, 2023 and 2024?