FOI 634/25
REQUEST
- How many offences of kidnapping (home office code - 03601) have been recorded from January 1st, 2020, to April 30th, 2025.
- Please can you provide the outcome for each of these reported offences.
- Please can you provide the age and gender of each of the victims who have been reported kidnapped.
RESPONSE
Question 1
A search has been conducted using our crime and incident reporting system (NICHE RMS) for all crimes recorded between 1st January 2020 and 30th April 2025 using the Home Office (HO) code: 36/36/1: Kidnapping (Common Law).
This search yielded 327 crimes.
Questions 2 & 3
| Q2 | Q3 | |||
| Outcome | Total | Gender | Total | |
| 00: Not recognised as an official outcome | 22 | Female | 231 | |
| 01: Charged/summonsed | 57 | Indeterminate | 2 | |
| 01a: Charged/summonsed [alternate] | 1 | Male | 82 | |
| 09: Not in public interest [CPS] | 2 | Not recorded | 2 | |
| 12: Prosecution prevented [S ill] | 2 | Unknown | 1 | |
| 13: Prosecution prevented [VW dead/ill] | 1 | (blank) | 9 | |
| 14: Evidential difficulties [S not identified] | 12 | Grand Total | 327 | |
| 15: Evidential difficulties [VS] | 93 | |||
| 16: Evidential difficulties [VDNS] | 107 | Age Range | Total | |
| 18: Investigation complete [NSI] | 29 | 10-17 | 23 | |
| 21: Investigation not in public interest [Police] | 1 | 18-24 | 69 | |
| Grand Total | 327 | 25-34 | 98 | |
| 35-44 | 72 | |||
| 45-54 | 28 | |||
| 55-64 | 13 | |||
| 65 and Over | 7 | |||
| Under 10 | 8 | |||
| (blank) | 9 | |||
| Grand Total | 327 |
Please see below the meanings of the abbreviations included in the outcome data:
l SUA – Suspect underage
l S ill – Suspect ill
l VW dead/ill – Victim or witness dead/ill
l S not identified – Suspect not identified
l VS - Victim Supports
l VDNS – Victim does not support
l NSI – No suspect identified
l V aware – Victim aware
l CPS – Crown Prosecution Service
l NIPI – Not in public interest