Malicious Communications

1) How many people have been charged with malicious communication in the last three years?

2a) How many of those people have been charged with malicious communication where there was a MI - internet, email, chatroom - feature code in the past three years?

b)Can you please list the date of the charge and as much detail as is possible (i.e what was written on the internet etc, were they found guilty etc)

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

1) We can found no record of persons being charged under the Malicious Communications Act 1988

2a & b N/A

In addition the Cheshire Constabulary can neither confirm nor deny that it holds any other information in relation to your request. To give a statement of the reasons why neither confirming nor denying is appropriate in this case would itself involve disclosure of exempt information, therefore under section 17 (4), no explanation can be given. To the extent that section 23 (5) applies, the Cheshire Constabulary has determined that in all the circumstances of the case the public interest in maintaining the exclusion of the duty to neither confirm nor deny outweighs the public interest in confirming whether of not any other information is held.