FOI Illegal Abortions (903-2023/24)

Request

Q1. Between 1 January 2021 and 27 November 2023, has your force investigated:
014/01 – Administering drugs or using instruments to procure abortion.
014/02 – Procuring drugs etc to cause abortion.
 
Please provide a Yes/No answer
 
Q2. If the answer to Q1 is “yes”, please provide the total number of times your force has investigated a case of 014/01 – Administering drugs or using instruments to procure abortion or 014/02 – Procuring drugs etc to  cause abortion.
 
Q3. If the answer to Q1 is “yes”, between 1 January 2021 and 27 November 2023, has your force requested a woman hand over data from a menstrual tracking app to aid your investigation?
 
Q4. If the answer to Q3 is ‘yes”, please will you provide the name of the menstrual tracking apps?
 
Q5. If the answer to Q1 is “yes”, between 1 January 2021 and 27 November 2023, has your force requested a menstrual tracking app (such as Flo or FEMM) share a woman’s data with you to aid your investigation?
 
Q6: If the answer to Q5 is “yes”, please will you provide the name of the menstrual tracking apps?

Response

Extent and Result of Searches to Locate Information

To locate the information relevant to your request searches were conducted within North Yorkshire Police. I can confirm that the information you have requested is held by North Yorkshire Police. 

Decision

I have today decided to disclose the located information to you.

Q1. Yes

Q2. 1

Q3. No

Q4. N/A

Q5. No

Q6. N/A

Please note that systems used for recording information are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data.  It should be noted therefore that this force’s response to your questions should not be used for comparison purposes with any other responses you may receive.