Screened out crimes
Freedom of Information Act request number: 2022-160
Version date: 25/02/2022
I would like to know the a) number and b) proportion of crimes that were screened out or closed without investigation on the same day that they were reported.
By ‘screened out’ I mean cases where a crime reference was issued but no subsequent investigation or follow-up was ever carried out. This can be after an initial/primary assessment to identify those that are more likely to be solvable.
Please provide data for each of the last three calendar years: 2019, 2020 and 2021.
As well as the totals for each year, please provide a breakdown by offence subgroup showing:
- Homicide
- Violence without injury
- Possession of weapons offences
- Vehicle offences
- Other sexual offences
- Miscellaneous crimes against society
- Rape
- Violence with injury
- Domestic burglary
- Non-domestic burglary
- Robbery
- All other theft offences
- Theft from the person
- Bicycle theft
- Shoplifting
- Fraud offences
- Arson
- Criminal damage
- Public order offences
- Trafficking of drugs
- Possession of drugs
Data Processing:
This data has been extracted from Niche and has been defined where an outcome has been applied within 24 hours of the crime being recorded.
Please note:
Investigation of a reported offence starts immediately within our Call Handling Centre.
All crimes, where there is viable potential for a positive outcome will be allocated for further investigation. Where there is little potential for such an outcome, victims will be informed at the earliest opportunity, offered crime prevention advice and the services of Victim Support.
However this is not to indicate that there will be no subsequent investigation if further information comes available
Assessments of crimes for further investigation are conducted by a trained member of staff who looks at each crime to ensure that all investigative opportunities have been explored and if further investigation is required. They will also research our databases to ensure that we do not hold any other data that could identify a line of enquiry.
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