Police recorded crime: transferred or cancelled records

• Published by: Home Office
• Last updated: 28 January 2016
• Topic: Crime and justice
• Licence: Open Government Licence

Summary

Police record some crimes which are subsequently transferred or cancelled, where it is judged that a crime did not take place, or was recorded in error. The Home Office Counting Rules (HOCR) set out circumstances under which a crime report may be transferred or cancelled. These include situations where a crime is considered to have been recorded in error or where, having been recorded, additional verifiable information becomes available that determines that no crime was committed (for further information see the ‘general rules’ section of the HOCR)

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Link to the data	Format	File added	Data preview
Data April 2015 onwards	ODS	28 January 2016	Not available
Data April 2011 - March 2015	ODS	22 October 2015	Not available

Supporting documents

Link to the document	Format	Date added
Landing page	HTML	23 July 2015
Home Office Counting Rules for Recorded Crime	HTML	23 July 2015

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