Sexual harassment and sexual assault Bournemouth
Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FIN/25/003413/W
Version Date: 18/07/2025
How many reports of sexual harassment, sexual assault have been reported to you that has occurred within Bournemouth town centre in the past 3 years.
The Performance Analysis Department has provided the following information.
Searches were completed for crimes with the sexual offence category of Sexual Assault Female and Sexual Assault Male and that have occurred within the Bournemouth Central section.
Please note that sexual harassment is not a crime of its own, therefore, searches were completed for crimes in the Crimesec 3 group of Harassment, with the keyword ‘sex’ in the occurrence summary.
The following data is for the past 3 calendar years.
| SC Description | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
| Assault a boy under 13 by touching - SOA 2003 (recordable) | 3 | 1 | 3 |
| Assault a girl under 13 by penetration with a part of your body / a thing - SOA 2003 (recordable) | 1 | 2 | |
| Assault a male 13 or over by penetration with part of body / a thing - SOA 2003 (recordable) | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Sexual assault of a female 13 or over by penetration (S2, SOA 2003) | 17 | 6 | 10 |
| Sexual assault of a female child under 13 (S3, SOA 2003) | 3 | 10 | 6 |
| Sexual assault of a male child under 13 by penetration (Sec 6 SOA 2003) | 1 | ||
| Sexual assault on a female (recordable) | 116 | 113 | 103 |
| Sexual assault on a male aged 13 or over (Sec 3, SOA 2003) | 8 | 16 | 11 |
| Total | 148 | 149 | 138 |
| SC Description | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
| Harassment without violence (recordable) | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| Total | 1 | 3 | 1 |