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<p>All allegations of rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment made by members of
the Armed Forces are thoroughly investigated by either the Civil or Service Police
forces, depending upon who has jurisdiction.</p><p> </p><p>Over the last three years
there have been four cases of sexual harassment reported to the Service Police or
the Ministry of Defence Police in which they have retained jurisdiction for the matter.
These are broken down as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Service</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number
of Cases</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>Royal Navy</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>Army</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>Royal
Navy</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>Army</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p>Over the same period, there have been no cases of sexual harassment dealt with
by way of a Summary Hearing. Cases of sexual harassment dealt with by Courts Martial
are as follows:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Service</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number
of Defendants</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of Charges</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Outcome</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>Royal
Air Force</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>2 x Guilty</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>Army</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>2
x Guilty</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>Royal Air Force</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>2
x Guilty</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>Royal Navy</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1
x Guilty</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>Army</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>3
x Guilty 1 x Not Guilty</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>Royal Navy</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1
x Guilty</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The Service Police figures may not represent
the totality of allegations. To do so would require the manual interrogation of all
offences investigated by the Service Police to establish whether there were any secondary
offences of harassment. Similarly, whilst there were no offences of harassment dealt
with by way of Summary Hearing during this period, it is possible that the cases may
have been charged as an alternative Service conduct offence and dealt with summarily.
It would not be possible to establish the extent of this without manually examining
every conduct case dealt with summarily.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>
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