https://github.com/bbc-data-unit/crime-figures

Crime figures: Do the police know how much there really is?
https://github.com/bbc-data-unit/crime-figures

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Crime figures: Do the police know how much there really is?

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/bbc-data-unit/crime-figures
• Owner: BBC-Data-Unit
• Created: 2019-03-21T10:02:58.000Z (almost 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2019-03-21T10:11:16.000Z (almost 6 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-07T05:30:18.046Z (about 2 months ago)
• Topics: baddata, crime, police
• Homepage: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-46894162
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# Crime figures: Do the police know how much there really is?

![](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/3A85/production/_105218941_recordedcrime-nc.png)

In March 2019, we reported on the quality of crime data, as police forces across England and Wales were criticised for not recording hundreds of thousands of crimes reported to them each year.

The article was written after the BBC [asked for readers' questions about the recording of crime](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-46867657).

## Get the data

* [Reports - Rolling programme of crime data integrity inspections](https://www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmicfrs/our-work/article/crime-data-integrity/reports-rolling-programme-crime-data-integrity/)

* CSV: [Violent crime data](https://github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/crime-figures/blob/master/violentcrime.csv)

* XLSX: [Police force crime data](https://github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/crime-figures/blob/master/policeforcecrimedata.xlsx)

## Quotes and interviews

* [2014 report by the UK Parliament's Home Affairs Select Committee](https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmselect/cmpubadm/760/76004.htm)

* The Office for National Statistics (ONS)

* Chief Constable Peter Goodman, Derbyshire Police

* Deputy Chief Constable Louisa Rolfe, West Midlands Police

* Chief Constable Simon Cole, Leicestershire Police

## Visualisation

![](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/13D24/production/_105988118_policeratings.png)

* Line chart: Crime in England and Wales, 2003-2018, police recorded crime vs Crime Survey for England and Wales

* Stacked bar chart: How police forces are rated for crime

* Bar chart: Estimated percentage of reports that are not recorded by police forces