Offences recorded involving the terms Grindr, Tinder, Hinge, Bumble 2019 - 2025

Your request details
1.) Between January 1 2019 and December 31 2025 inclusive, what was the total number of offences recorded involving the terms Grindr, Tinder, Hinge, Bumble?
Please provide a breakdown of the total number of offences for each keyword, anonymised as necessary to protect the identity of individuals. (Note: I am aware that Grindr and Tinder are often misspelled so I have provided a list of typos below to include in your search for those platforms)

2.) For each recorded incident, please provide the following details: date of offence, dating platform/keyword linked to crime, offence description, victim age, victim gender, suspect age, suspect gender and crime outcome where possible, anonymised as necessary to protect the identity of individuals.
According to Google search data these are common typos often used by users searching for these apps, so please include these typos in your searches for these apps to capture common
misspellings.
Grindr: Grinder, Grindrr
Tinder: Tindr
Hinge: Hing
Bumble: Bumbl

Response
Section 17 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 requires South Yorkshire 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.

The following exemption(s) apply to the disclosure of the information:
Exemption applied - Section 12(1) Where cost of compliance exceeds appropriate limit
We hold information that falls under the scope of your request. However, locating/retrieving/extracting the information would exceed the cost limit set out by section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000
(FOIA).

Reasons for applying exemption 12(1)
I approached the Performance Review Unit. The initial search of this system returned over 1800 Incident reports regarding incidents involving dating apps such as ‘Tinder, Hinge, Grindr and Bumble. Including the spelling variations you have provided, this increases the amount of reports to over 69,000.

The reason for the Section 12(1) is due to the possibility that the words searched will form parts of other words such as ‘doorhinge’. The data you are requesting is not recorded in an easily retrievable format and to provide the level of data you require would require a manual review of all the records. At a conservative 3 mins per incident this process would take over 47 hrs. 

The Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004 provide that the cost limit for non-central government public authorities is £450. This must be calculated at the rate of £25 per hour, providing an effective time limit of 18 hours.

Guidance from the Information Commissioner to public authorities is that where one part of a request is reasonably estimated to exceed the appropriate limit then the authority is not obliged to consider or comply with the remainder of the request up to the point at which the appropriate limit has been reached.

Please note point 30 of the below link:
https://ico.org.uk/media/fororganisations/documents/1199/costs_of_compliance_exceeds_appropriate_limit.pdf

Section 16: Providing advice and assistance
Under Section 16 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, my duty to provide advice and assistance to anyone making a request for information.
I trust this is helpful, but it does not affect our legal right to rely on the fees regulations for the remainder of your request neither does it bind South Yorkshire Police to any commitment that it will release information in such a manner in the future. 

We advise to significantly reduce the time frame of your request for us to perform a manual review of the results.