Request Number: F-2011-00018
Date:10/01/2011
Category:Registered Sex Offenders
Decision:Disclosed in part
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST
F-2011-00018
Request
1. When the Force joined the Child Sex Offender Disclosure Scheme (referred toin the mediaas Sarah’s law). This should include any time involved in any pilots of this scheme
2. A monthly breakdown of the number of applications about registered child sex offenders to the force under this scheme (please include any time in a pilot).
3. A monthly breakdown of the number of disclosures about registered child sex offenders by the force under the scheme (please include any time in a pilot).
5. The number of reported attacks on registered child sex offenders since the force joined the scheme/pilot.
Reply
1. Lincolnshire Police joined the scheme on 1st October 2010.
2. Between 1st October 2010 and 21st January 2011 Lincolnshire Police received 45 enquiries under the Child Sex Offender Disclosure Scheme.
Fewer than 10 of these enquiries were however actual applications according to the terms of the scheme. The other cases were when calls were received from people asking about specific individuals, where those people wrongly thought their enquiry fell within the Scheme. These enquirers were offered appropriate advice and directed to literature on our website.
Currently we do not hold a record of enquiries that would enable us to provide a monthly breakdown.
3. Between 1st October 2010 and 21st January 2011 Lincolnshire Police made fewer than 5 disclosures under the Child Sex Offender Disclosure Scheme.
Again, we do not currently hold a record of enquiries that would enable us to provide a monthly breakdown.
5. Between 1st October 2010 and 21st January 2011 there have been no reported attacks on registered sex offenders within the area served by Lincolnshire Police.
