Blackmail offences
Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FOI/26/009958/R
Version Date: 09/06/2026
The Performance & Analysis Department has provided the following information:
Data Source:
Crime information system – Niche
Data Processing:
Qliksense Occurrence People Links (All) Report
Crime Only
Filtered on Person: Victim
Filtered on HO Offence Description: Blackmail
Caveats/Limitations
No crimes/Cancelled Crimes excluded
The presence of a keyword only indicates its presence in the MO or Summary text and not its relevance to a crime
The presence of a keyword only indicates its presence in the Incident Log and not its relevance to an incident
Restricted Crimes excluded
The Principal crime rule dictates the crime type recorded.
Duplicates removed on financial year and nominal id - An individual will appear in the data only once per financial year.
Occurrence People Links data is dependent on the recording of an individual being linked to a crime, there may be a small number of crimes where no individual is linked and these will not appear in the data.
For the financial years 2013/14 to the latest year available, a breakdown of the number of recorded victims of blackmail offences in that year by age.
I would accept a breakdown by age groups if individual ages are not available, and if it is necessary to suppress small numbers of victims in some categories due to risk of identification please do so.
|
Victim's age at time of offence |
2012/13 |
2013/14 |
2014/15 |
2015/16 |
2016/17 |
2017/18 |
2018/19 |
2019/20 |
2020/21 |
2021/22 |
2022/23 |
2023/24 |
2024/25 |
2025/26 |
Total |
|
<18 |
0 |
5 |
10 |
16 |
26 |
15 |
33 |
32 |
95 |
91 |
210 |
240 |
127 |
229 |
1129 |
|
18-25 |
2 |
4 |
20 |
52 |
52 |
65 |
83 |
90 |
173 |
256 |
351 |
458 |
243 |
248 |
2097 |
|
26-35 |
0 |
1 |
8 |
19 |
36 |
46 |
45 |
48 |
83 |
105 |
133 |
179 |
138 |
141 |
982 |
|
36-45 |
2 |
5 |
6 |
13 |
23 |
26 |
41 |
24 |
52 |
66 |
73 |
82 |
75 |
96 |
584 |
|
46-55 |
1 |
2 |
5 |
17 |
23 |
22 |
49 |
33 |
40 |
51 |
62 |
84 |
61 |
60 |
510 |
|
56-65 |
2 |
3 |
5 |
7 |
16 |
18 |
39 |
20 |
19 |
34 |
31 |
49 |
42 |
52 |
337 |
|
>65 |
1 |
0 |
3 |
4 |
14 |
10 |
32 |
11 |
11 |
20 |
23 |
24 |
40 |
39 |
232 |
|
Age Unknown |
0 |
0 |
3 |
2 |
3 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
19 |
|
Total |
8 |
20 |
60 |
130 |
193 |
203 |
322 |
260 |
474 |
623 |
885 |
1118 |
728 |
866 |
5890 |