Sexual harassment at gyms

Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FOI/24/6107

Version Date: 05/03/2024

The Performance & Analysis Department have provided the following information.

Data Source

Crimes recorded on crime information system - NICHE

Data Processing:

Qliksense Occurrence People Links (all)

Filtered by reported date: 01/01/2021 - 31/12/2023

Filtered on Victim: Female

Filtered on all offence groups containing the word 'harassment'

Excel text filter of address and summary and MO fields for the keywords

*Leisure Complex*

*Sports Venue*

*Health Club*

*Fitness Centre*

*Gym*

Data Caveats/Limitations:

No crimes/Cancelled Crimes included

Figures provided are reliant on the keywords being used in the address and may not be wholly accurate. 

Please can you provide me with the number of reports received by your force from females regarding sexual harassment at the gym.

Please provide separate figures for 2021, 2022 and 2023.

Please Note: there is no specific offence of “sexual harassment”.  Therefore, the figures below show all harassment offences

All offences returned from the searches described above were individually read to determine if the offence occurred at a gym.  

2021 x2
2022 x3
2023 x4