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The best publicly reported figures indicate UK police made roughly 12,000 arrests a year for “offensive” online communications (about “more than 30 arrests a day”) based on custody data compiled by Th...
Official reporting and independent analyses converge on the same headline: roughly 12,000 arrests a year in recent years have been linked to online communications in the UK, equivalent to about 30–33 ...
Police custody data obtained and analysed by The Times and cited across parliamentary and civil-liberties reporting indicate roughly 12,000 arrests a year in recent years for communications or “online...
Available reporting shows UK police made roughly 12,000 arrests a year for “offensive” online communications around 2023, equivalent to more than 30 arrests per day, but those figures cover a broad mi...
Public reporting based on Freedom of Information responses shows the Metropolitan Police recorded the largest number of arrests for online communications offences in recent reporting, followed by West...
Police custody data obtained and reported in major outlets show roughly 12,000 UK arrests in a recent year for online communications described as “offensive” or causing “anxiety”, which equates to “mo...
Available reporting identifies roughly 12,000 arrests in the UK in 2023 for offences recorded under section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 and section 1 of the Malicious Communications Act 1988 — ...
Official reporting and multiple investigations point to roughly in in recent years tied to communications laws — a figure widely cited as the total for 2023 based on custody data obtained by media out...
Reporting based on collated by and summarised in parliamentary and NGO sources shows 12,183 arrests under Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 and Section 1 of the Malicious Communications Act 1...
Leicestershire police reported the highest rate of communications‑related arrests per 100,000 population in 2023 — 83 per 100,000 — according to data collated by The Times and discussed in subsequent ...
Several UK police forces have publicly engaged with data and case reviews about arrests tied to online posts — producing FOI responses, dropping charges after social-media-origin questions, or supplyi...
Data published by national outlets and individual forces show thousands of UK arrests for offensive online communications in 2023–24 and wide variation across forces: The Daily Mail’s compilation (bas...