Indecent images and revenge porn
Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FIN/25/003516/C
Version Date: 19/08/2025
The Performance Analysis Department has provided the following information.
Data Source:
Niche crime information system
Data Processing:
Filtered on Home Office codes which correlate to SOA 2003 and Protection of Children Act: 088/09, 088/14, 088/15, 175/08, 086/02.
I used the keywords provided below in the OEL entry texts and occurrence summaries, as we do not use an AI flag or marker. I put spaces around the phrase ‘AI’ to stop it bringing up AI where it appears within words.
"Please can you provide me with the total number of offences recorded by police, broken down by month, since January 2024, of the following offences below. I’m specifically interested in those offences below relating to artificial intelligence usage, so I would like a breakdown to only include those offences which mention “AI”, “artificial intelligence” or “deep fake” or “deepfake” in the crime MO notes – NB: if the force already has its own AI flag, please use that instead of the keyword search.
For each month since and including January 2023, up to the latest month available, could I have the AI-related offences (as classified using the above search terms):
1. Under Section 66b The Sexual Offences Act 2003 (the offence of sharing or threatening to share an intimate photograph or film of, or appearing to be of, someone - colloquially known as ‘revenge pornography’ – see college of policing guidance here: https://www.college.police.uk/guidance/sharing-photographs-of-people-intimate-state)
2. Under Section 66 E-F The Sexual Offences Act 2003 (the offence of creating purported intimate image of adult or Requesting the creation of purported intimate image of adult - basically the creation of revenge pornography)
3. Under Section 1a Protection of Children Act 1978 (creating sexually explicit images / pseudo images of a child)
4. Under Section 1b Protection of Children Act 1978 (to distribute or show such indecent photographs)
5. Under Section 1c Protection of Children Act 1978 (to possess such indecent photographs or pseudo-photographs)"
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2025 |
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Send photograph or film of genitals - s187 Online Safety Act 2023 / s66A SOA 2003 |
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1 |
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1 |
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1 |
3 |
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Send/threaten to share photograph or film of a person in an intimate state intending to cause alarm, distress, humiliation or for the purposes of sexual gratification - SOA 2003 s66B |
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1 |
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1 |
1 |
1 |
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1 |
1 |
6 |
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Share/threaten to share photograph or film of person in an intimate state without consent - SOA 2003 s66B (1) & (9) |
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1 |
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1 |
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Take / make / distribute indecent photographs or pseudo-photographs of children |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
6 |
2 |
1 |
3 |
6 |
2 |
35 |
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Grand Total |
1 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
9 |
3 |
1 |
3 |
7 |
4 |
45 |