FOI 511/25

REQUEST

I am requesting the following information for the time period 1 January 2015 to 4 April 2025:

1) The total number of data requests South Wales Police has made to the website Vivastreet as part of its investigations into potential criminality connected to a prostitution advert on the website.

RESPONSE

We consulted with our Crime and Criminal justice unit who have provided the following information regarding your request.

A search has been conducted on our crime and incident reporting system (NICHE RMS) for all occurrences recorded throughout the specified time period containing one of the following key words, *Vivastreet* and *Viva street*. Additionally relevant operational teams who conduct enquiries in this area were also contacted to retrieve any information they held in relation to this request.

All results retrieved were individually interrogated to establish relevance to your request.

Based on this search we can confirm that between 1 January 2015 to 4 April 2025, South Wales have recorded 28 data requests to Vivastreet.

Please note that this data has been gathered by searching our records management system for offences containing the keywords *Vivastreet* and *Viva street* 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.