Sex Offenders

  • Reference Number: 2311
  • Date released: 20 January 2010

Request

  1. The number of registered sex offenders within the area that your force covers.
  2. The amount of these which are classed as "on the run", therefore have not kept to the requirements ordered alongside being put on the register whilst in court.
  3. And if possible I would like to know out of these registered sex offenders how many were put on the list after committing sex crimes against under 16s - therefore classing them as paedophiles.

Response

In accordance with section 1(1) of the Act our response is provided below;

Question 1

This information is reasonably accessible to you by other means and is therefore exempt information in accordance with section 21 of the Act. The information is published by the Probation Service under the MAPPA arrangements. Please see the Probation Home Office Web Site

Question 2

There are currently three persons to which this question relates who's whereabouts are unknown.

Question 3

The number of RSOs known to have been convicted of offences against under 16s and whose whereabouts are currently unknown is three.

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