Public Accountability Meeting

Crime Recording and Crime Data Integrity (CDI)

Introduction

Caring about the Vulnerable

Ambitious Collaboration

Reinforcing Local Policing

Enhancing the Customer Experience

Helping you to feel safe and be safe in North Yorkshire

Presentation Contents

• What is a crime?• The Home Office Counting Rules (HOCR) and National Crime

Recording Standard (NCRS) • Why is effective crime recording important? • How do we deliver effective crime recording?• Inspection activity

– HMICFRS Crime Data Integrity inspection (CDI)– North Yorkshire’s results and the national picture

• The Crime Recording process• Improving standards• Maintaining standards

What is a crime?

• The Home Office define a crime as: an act committed by a person which is contrary to law and is classified as a ‘notifiable’ offence by the Ministry of Justice.

• All notifiable offences must be recorded by police on their crime system and reported to the Home Office.

Home Office Counting Rules (HOCR) and National Crime Recording Standards (NCRS)

• The NCRS was added to the HOCR in April 2002, with the aim of promoting greater consistency between police forces in the recording of crime and to take a more victim oriented approach to crime recording.

• A belief by the victim (or their representative) that a crime has occurred, is usually sufficient to justify it’s recording

• The general rule is ‘one victim – one crime’, however the counting rules are extremely complex and there are often exceptions

Source: HOCR 2018

Why is effective crime recording important?

• Ensures victims of crime receive the service they expect and deserve; • Allows us to prioritise effective investigation of crime in keeping with

national standards and the College of Policing’s Code of Ethics; • Informs the public of the scale, scope and risk of crime in their local

communities; • Allows PCCs, Forces and local partners to build intelligence on crime and

criminal behaviour necessary for an efficient and effective response; • Enables the Government, PCCs, Forces and their partners to understand

the extent of demands made on them and the associated costs of service delivery; and

• Informs the development of Government policy to reduce crime and to establish whether those policies are effective.

How do we deliver effective crime recording?

• People • Processes• Training and Communication • Audit and Assurance• Inspection

HMICFRS Crime Data Integrity (CDI) Inspection

• Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Service (HMICFRS) undertook an inspection in November 2017 to establish North Yorkshire’s crime recording accuracy. A sample was taken of all incidents recorded between 01 Feb – 31 July 2017, in the following categories:

– violence against the person; – sexual offences; and – all other offences excluding fraud (everything excluding violence

against the person, sexual offences and fraud) • A total of 1711 incidents and the associated recordings of calls made by

members of the public were assessed by the inspection team. • They found that North Yorkshire had recorded 80.1% of the crimes reported

to them, estimating that 9,200 reports of crime a year are not recorded. • As a result HMICFRS gave North Yorkshire an overall grading of ‘Inadequate’.

HMICFRS CDI - National Picture

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North Yorkshiire80.1

Thames Valley80.4

Devon and Cornwall81.5

Merseyside84.1

Northumbria92.7

Avon and Somerset89.5

Cheshire83.6

Kent83.6

Cambridgeshire87.8

Staffordshire91

GMP85.5

Sussex94.6

Leicestershire75.8

West Midlands83.8

Wiltshire90.9

North Wales88.3

Lancashire84.3

South Wales90.2

Hertfordshire87.2

Durham91.5

HMICFRS CDI – North Yorkshire

What did HMICFRS tell us we are doing well?

• Our officers and staff were found to be placing the safeguarding needs of victim at the fore-front of their crime recording decisions. In the cases reviewed we had recorded an incident log, attended, investigated and provided support to victims where appropriate;

• We have worked hard to improve the knowledge and understanding of crime recording requirements for modern slavery crimes among officers and staff;

• We have worked hard to implement the recommendations from the 2014 HMIC CDI inspection;

• We have made good progress against the national crime recording action plan developed to improve

• There was clear evidence that officers and staff believe that doing the right thing for victims paramount and this is reinforced at all levels of the organisation.

What did HMICFRS recommend we improve? • Improve our crime recording processes to address the

potential under-recording of 9,200 crimes per year* • The process we use to manage reports of crime made directly

to our public protection department. • The accuracy of the recording of violent and sexual offences. • Improve the supervision of crime recording decisions • Improve the knowledge and understanding of officers and

staff to ensure to improve recording standards. * HMICFRS have extrapolated this figure based on the examination of 1711 reports of crime made to North Yorkshire Police.

HMICFRS CDI – North Yorkshire

Maintaining standards

• Crime Data Integrity (CDI) Improvement Group • New Crime recording and occurrence management unit• Training and Communications • Audit and Assurance• Learning from others

Questions

Thank you

Public Accountability Meeting IntroductionPresentation Contents What is a crime? Home Office Counting Rules (HOCR) and National Crime Recording Standards (NCRS)Why is effective crime recording important?How do we deliver effective crime recording? HMICFRS Crime Data Integrity (CDI) Inspection HMICFRS CDI - National Picture HMICFRS CDI – North YorkshireHMICFRS CDI – North YorkshireMaintaining standards Questions