Child abduction and kidnap 811/2025

FOI Reference: 811/2025

Request:

Specifically, I’d be very grateful if you could supply the following information:

1. From 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025, how many crimes of child abduction by a parent (Home Office classification 13/01) were recorded in Dyfed-Powys Police?
2. From 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025, how many crimes of child abduction by other persons (Home Office classification 13/02) were recorded in Dyfed-Powys Police?
3. From 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025, how many crimes of kidnapping (Home Office classification 36/01) – when the victim was aged under 18 at the time of the offence – were recorded in Dyfed-Powys Police? Please note: I only want to collect data on 36/01 offences; not the other 36 sub-categories (36/02, 36/03, 36/04 etc.).

For each of these three figures (questions 1, 2 and 3 above) please can you indicate how many of the offences were flagged as Child Sexual Abuse, and how many were flagged as Child Sexual Exploitation.

I’m looking for information on crimes recorded rather than ‘incidents’.

Home Office classification number refers to the Counting Rules: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/counting-rules-for-recorded-crime

As per Home Office Counting Rules (2024/25), page 26: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67ee9b2a199d1cd55b48c769/crime-recording-rules-for-frontline-officers-and-staff-2025_26-april-2025-update.pdf

Responses:

I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, the details of which are as follows:

Additionally, Dyfed-Powys Police can neither confirm nor deny that it holds any other information with regard to an exempt body as the duty in Section 1(1)(a) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 does not apply by virtue of the following exemption:

Section 23(5) Information supplied by or concerning certain Security Bodies.

Section 23 is a class-based absolute exemption and there is no requirement to consider the public interest in this case. Confirming or denying the existence of whether any other information is held would contravene the constrictions laid out within Section 23 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in that this stipulates a generic bar on disclosure of any information applied by, or concerning, certain Security Bodies.                                   

(This is a response under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and disclosed on 23/09/2025)