FOI 719/25
REQUEST
For 2024 and 2023:
- How many instances of offences were reported to the police forced regarding the game “Roblox”.
- A breakdown of the type of offence i.e. “Sexual Activity Involving A Child Under 13”, “Sexual Activity Involving A Child Under 16”, “Sexual grooming”, “Engage in sexual communication with a child”. Etc.
RESPONSE
We conducted a search on our crime and incident recording system (NICHE RMS) for all occurrences were ‘Roblox’ had been mentioned in the summary and South Wales was the ‘owning agency’ within the requested time frame.
This search retrieved 30 results.
Question 1
Please see the below figures broken down by year.
|
Year |
Total |
|
2023 |
12 |
|
2024 |
18 |
Question 2
Please see the below broken down by occurrence type.
|
|
Year |
|
|
Occurrence type |
2023 |
2024 |
|
AD7 Contact Record |
|
1 |
|
CR37 Violence Against The Person |
4 |
3 |
|
CR38 Sexual Offences |
2 |
6 |
|
CR45 Crime Related Incident |
2 |
3 |
|
PS10 Concern for Safety |
3 |
2 |
|
PS11 Domestic Incident |
1 |
1 |
|
PS30 Absconder/AWOL/Wanted Persons/Police & Court |
|
1 |
|
PS35 Suspicious Circumstances/Insecure Premises or Vehicles |
|
1 |
Please note that this data has been gathered by searching our records management system for offences containing the keyword Roblox in the relevant time period. The results retrieved are dependent on how the information has been entered onto the system. As such, the information provided should not be considered statistically accurate and/or definitive and therefore, care should be taken when using this data for any further statistical, analytical or evaluative purposes.