Voyeurism offences

Your request details
1. The number of recorded voyeurism offences (including but not limited to offences under Section
67 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 and the Voyeurism Act 2019) for each of the following years:
* 2024/25
* 2023/24
* 2022/23
* 2021/22
* 2020/21
* 2019/20
2. How many recorded voyeurism or "recording without consent" offences mentioned any of the
following terms in each of the years above:
* "spy camera"
* "hidden camera"
* "covert camera"
* "secretly recorded"
Possible clarification also issued
3. For the same years, please provide the outcomes for any recorded voyeurism offences (including
offences under Section 67 Sexual Offences Act 2003 and the Voyeurism (Offences) Act 2019) in
which the offence record contains any of the following keywords:
* "spy camera"
* "hidden camera"
* "covert camera"
* "secretly recorded"

Response
I approached our Performance Review Unit for assistance with your request. An analyst within this unit has
conducted a search of our Crime Management System - Connect which records complaints or allegations
of those matters, which the Home Office specify should be recorded as 'crimes'. All our systems are
designed and used first and foremost for Policing Purposes and have limited search capability. They
provided me with the following explanation regarding their search criteria:

Criteria used :

SYP & crime only filter, Incident Created Date is between 01/01/2019 and 31/12/2024, HO Classification
is equal to 088/10, 088/12, 088/13
&
SYP & crime only filter, Incident Created Date is between 01/01/2019 and 31/12/2024, HO Classification
is equal to 088/10, 088/12, 088/13, Initial MO is LIKE (pattern match) "spy camera%, %hidden camera%,
%covert camera%, %secretly recorded%
Please note :–
• Extracted on 12/01/2026. Data from CONNECT crime only. This is a live recording system and may
be subject to change.
• It's worth noting that some fields used are not mandatory and require manual input.
• Outcomes:
South Yorkshire Police consider investigation outcomes with the utmost importance to understand the
effectiveness of our activity in relation to victim wishes and criminal justice delivery.
Certain data fields within the Force's crime reporting system are not mandatory, therefore we do not
recommend the use of suspect level outcome to be the most effective way of measuring crime outcomes.
Internal testing has shown that using the outcome of the investigation to be the most accurate way of
reporting and presenting this data. This aligns to the data that is reported to the Home Office for purposes
of national comparison.

Question 1 & 2

Of these, 5 include the terms provided.

Question 3

Please note, every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete.
However, it is important to note that data has been extracted from data sources used by this force for police
purposes. The detail collected to respond specifically to your request is subject to the inaccuracies inherent
in any large-scale recording systems and information assets.

The figures provided therefore are our best interpretation of relevance of data to your request, but you
should be aware that the collation of figures/data for any requests may have limitations, and this should be
taken into account when those data sets are used.

Police forces do not use generic systems or identical procedures for capturing the data. For these reasons
this response to your questions should not be used for comparison purposes with responses you may
receive from other police forces.