Indecent exposure 1192/2025

FOI Reference: 1192/2025

Request

1a) How many reports of indecent exposure did Dyfed-Powys Police force receive in 2020?

1b) How many reports of indecent exposure did Dyfed-Powys Police record as crimes in 2020?

1c) What was the outcome of each of these reports (Home Office Outcome)

2a) How many reports of indecent exposure did Dyfed-Powys Police force receive in 2021?

2b) How many reports of indecent exposure did Dyfed-Powys Police record as crimes in 2021?

2c) What was the outcome of each of these reports (Home Office Outcome)

3a) How many reports of indecent exposure did Dyfed-Powys Police force receive in 2022?

3b) How many reports of indecent exposure did Dyfed-Powys Police record as crimes in 2022?

3c) What was the outcome of each of these reports (Home Office Outcome)

4a) How many reports of indecent exposure did Dyfed-Powys Police record as crimes in 2023?

4b) How many reports of indecent exposure did Dyfed-Powys Police record as crimes in 2023?

4c) What was the outcome of each of these reports (Home Office Outcome)

5a) How many reports of indecent exposure did Dyfed-Powys Police record as crimes in 2024?

5b) How many reports of indecent exposure did Dyfed-Powys Police record as crimes in 2024?

5c) What was the outcome of each of these reports (Home Office Outcome)

6a) How many reports of indecent exposure have Dyfed-Powys Police recorded as crimes so far in 2025?

6b) How many reports of indecent exposure have Dyfed-Powys Police recorded as crimes so far in 2025?

6c) What has been the outcome of each of these reports (Home Office Outcome)

Response

Section 1 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 places two duties on public authorities. Unless exemptions apply, the first duty at Section 1(1) (a) is to confirm or deny whether the information specified in a request is held. The second duty at Section 1(1) (b) is to disclose information that has been confirmed as being held.

Where exemptions are relied upon Section 17 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 requires Dyfed Powys Police, when refusing to provide such information (because the information is exempt) to provide you the applicant with a notice which:   (a) states that fact, (b) specifies the exemption in question and (c) states (if that would not otherwise be apparent) why the exemption applies.

I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information you have requested. However, we are withholding the whole of the requested information since we consider that the Section 12(1) exemption the Cost of Compliance exceeds the Appropriate Limit applies to it.

Section 12 (1) – The cost of compliance exceeds the Appropriate Limit

Section 12(1) states: “…Section 1 (1) does not oblige a public authority to comply with a request for information if the authority estimates that the cost of complying with the request would exceed the appropriate limit.”

The cost of providing you with the information requested in respect of your request is above the amount to which we are legally required to respond i.e. the cost of locating and retrieving the information exceeds the “appropriate level” as stated in the Freedom of Information (Fees and Appropriate Limit) Regulations 2004. It is estimated that it would exceed 18 hours (i.e. minimum of 29 hours) to comply with this part of your request. The regulations can be located @ https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/3244

The Freedom of Information department has been advised that the information in respect of Q1 – Q3 (a, b & c) of your request is not held in an easily retrievable format. In light of this and in order to accurately obtain the information relative to your request for the time frame stipulated between the period 2020 to May 12^th 2023 would involve Dyfed Powys Police accessing and manually reviewing each of the 349 records, on the pre Niche(Old recording system) to determine if an offence of exposure was recorded, as there is no means of filtering this search.

It has also been established that it would take a minimum of 5 minutes to review and obtain the information for a single record in respect of your request. 

The process outlined results in the below time estimate.

349 records x 5 minutes per records = 29 hours

Time estimate to complete task = 29 hours

In accordance therefore with the Freedom of Information Act 2000, this letter acts as a Refusal Notice for the Whole of this request under Section 17(5) A public authority which, in relation to any request for information, is relying on a claim that section 12 or section 14 applies must, within the time for complying with section 1(1), give the applicant a notice stating that fact.

You may wish to refine and resubmit your request so that it reduces the time shown above to fall within the 18 hours, should you require any further advice in relation to this matter please don’t hesitate to contact the Freedom of Information Unit. Please also be advised that should the request be refined, it does not remove the public authorities right to cite exemptions if relevant.

Please note:

The post Niche data (New recording system) would be retrievable May 12^th 2023 to present (201 offences) as exposure has its own offence reference, and therefore searchable.

(This is a response under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and disclosed on 15/12/2025)