Offences mentioning Grok 51/2026

FOI Reference: 51/2026

Request:

I am interested in the period from 1 August 2025 to the present, which reflects when the platform “Grok” began to be used in contexts relevant to safeguarding and potential criminal misuse, including image generation.

Please treat the following as separate but related requests:

1) Recorded offences mentioning “Grok”

For offences recorded by your force during this period, please state the number of crime reports in which the free-text field (sometimes described by forces as the modus operandi or MO field) contains a mention of the word “Grok”.

Please provide a breakdown by offence type.

2) Redacted free-text crime report entries

For the same period, please provide redacted copies of the relevant free-text crime report entries in which “Grok” is mentioned.

I am not requesting personal data. Any information identifying individuals may be redacted as necessary.

3) Use of Grok in connection with recorded offences

Please state whether your force holds any information indicating that “Grok” was used to facilitate, generate, alter or share material relevant to a recorded offence during this period.

Where such information is held, please state how many offences this relates to and, where possible, provide a breakdown by offence category (for example, sexual offences, indecent images, harassment, malicious communications, fraud).

If no such information is held, please confirm this explicitly.

Response:

I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does not hold the information requested, this is due to the fact that are no offences within the requested time period with “Grok” in the crime summary.                                              

It should be noted that as a result of the systems adopted by Dyfed-Powys Police in relation to the recording of such information that the information released may or may not be accurate.

Furthermore, it should also be noted that Police forces in the United Kingdom are routinely required to provide crime statistics to government bodies and the recording criteria is set nationally. However, the systems used for recording these figures are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the crime data. It should be noted that for these reasons this force's response to your questions should not be used for comparison purposes with any other response you may receive.

(This is a response under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and disclosed on 19/01/2026)