Figures reveal British police face 20 "shabby crimes" a week

Official figures show that the number of police calls related to Tinder has more than doubled in the last three years.

Police now receive more than 20 weekly reports related to the online dating application. As recently as 2015, the police had received about eight calls related to Tinder per week, a total of 442.

According to police figures, this number rose to 1,087 in 2018 – although not all armed forces provided a complete set of figures, the actual total

The statistics come to us while Anna Rowe, 44 years old, teaching badistant, revealed how she had been returned to the police after being deceived in an affair with a married father whom she had met in Tinder.

Ms. Rowe, of Canterbury, Kent, spoke to "Anthony Ray". for six months before her disappearance and she now wants the government to make it illegal to pretend to be someone online in order to forge a false relationship.

This upsurge in reports follows a series of large-scale crimes.

The armed forces did not specify the nature of the reported incidents, but previous research has shown that about one-third of the crimes involving dating applications were badual badault and rape.

Freedom of information requests sent to all British police forces found that Devon and Cornwall had the largest number of Tinder-related claims, with 86 appeals during the year to December 10.

Assuming that they continued to receive calls at the same rate, it would have

Esbad and the West Midlands followed with similar calculations, respectively 84 and 83.

Many incidents occurred in public transportation , the British Transport Police recorded 51 calls in 2018.

A number of forces did not respond to the request, while others did not provide figures for any Year, which means that the actual magnitude of the problem may be even greater than suggested by the data.

the meetings – and the badociated risks – prompted the police to react in an innovative way.

The Avon and Somerset police forces published in 2015 its own list of "isolated hearts". on Tinder – using the name Bobby – to invite users to stay safe

Series artist Kris Lyndsay, originally from St Austell in Cornwall, was sentenced to four years in prison in 2016 after using Tinder for to scam women.

Lyndsay cheated $ 25,000 before her victims were jailed. He told them that he had lost his wife and daughter in a car accident to gain their trust and boasted of his fictitious activities.

Annemarie Fletcher, mother of two, from Glastonbury, Somerset, separated from a diamond watch and ring valued at $ 77,000 after claiming he had cash-flow problems at work

In 2017, Jonathan Frame was jailed for 18 months as a result of a similar scam. The 32-year-old from Swinton, Greater Manchester, would take control of his partners' bank accounts to finance a lavish lifestyle. He admitted to defrauding two women for $ 13,400.