Crime statistics and investigative assessments from January 2019 to March 2022
Freedom of information request reference no: 01.FOI.22.023707
I note you seek access to the following information:
For 2019;
A) The number of confirmed crimes reported to you that are not investigated further than the ‘investigative assessment’ (which assesses the vulnerability of the victim, severity of the offence likelihood it can be solved and the most effective use of resources) within 24 hours of being reported.
If your force doesn’t carry out investigative assessments or cannot break the information down this way, please provide me with the number of confirmed crimes that do not qualify for further investigation after your forces initial screening/ investigative process within 24 hours of being reported and were not re opened at any stage.
Please break this information down by offence group as per the count offence classification index and only provide data for unresolved crimes. ie not crimes that were closed after 24 hours because a charge was brought.
B) Please also provide me with the total number of confirmed crimes reported to your force, again broken down by offence group.
C) Please also provide me with the number of confirmed crimes that resulted in a charge, again broken down by offence group.
For 2020;
A) The number of confirmed crimes reported to you that are not investigated further than the ‘investigative assessment’ (which assesses the vulnerability of the victim, severity of the offence likelihood it can be solved and the most effective use of resources) within 24 hours of being reported.
If your force doesn’t carry out investigative assessments or cannot break the information down this way, please provide me with the number of confirmed crimes that do not qualify for further investigation after your forces initial screening/ investigative process within 24 hours of being reported and were not re opened at any stage.
B) Please break this information down by offence group as per the count offence classification index and only provide data for unresolved crimes. ie not crimes that were closed after 24 hours because a charge was brought.
C) Please also provide me with the total number of confirmed crimes reported to your force, again broken down by offence group.
Please also provide me with the number of confirmed crimes that resulted in a charge, again broken down by offence group.
For 2021;
A) The number of confirmed crimes reported to you that are not investigated further than the ‘investigative assessment’ (which assesses the vulnerability of the victim, severity of the offence likelihood it can be solved and the most effective use of resources) within 24 hours of being reported.
If your force doesn’t carry out investigative assessments or cannot break the information down this way, please provide me with the number of confirmed crimes that do not qualify for further investigation after your forces initial screening/ investigative process within 24 hours of being reported and were not re opened at any stage.
Please break this information down by offence group as per the count offence classification index and only provide data for unresolved crimes. ie not crimes that were closed after 24 hours because a charge was brought.
B) Please also provide me with the total number of confirmed crimes reported to your force, again broken down by offence group.
C) Please also provide me with the number of confirmed crimes that resulted in a charge, again broken down by offence group.
For 2022 up to date (01/03/22)
A) The number of confirmed crimes reported to you that are not investigated further than the ‘investigative assessment’ (which assesses the vulnerability of the victim, severity of the offence likelihood it can be solved and the most effective use of resources) within 24 hours of being reported.
If your force doesn’t carry out investigative assessments or cannot break the information down this way, please provide me with the number of confirmed crimes that do not qualify for further investigation after your forces initial screening/ investigative process within 24 hours of being reported and were not re opened at any stage.
B) Please break this information down by offence group as per the count offence classification index and only provide data for unresolved crimes. ie not crimes that were closed after 24 hours because a charge was brought.
C) Please also provide me with the total number of confirmed crimes reported to your force, again broken down by offence group.
If it is not possible to provide the information requested due to the information exceeding the time or cost limits identified in Section 12, please provide the information in part and chronologically with a priority placed upon 2022 data. Please also advise and assist, under the Section 16 obligations of the Act, as to how I can refine my request.
Decision
I have today decided to disclose the located information to you in full.
Please find below information pursuant to your request above.
Please ensure that the ‘Notes’ page is read in conjunction with the data in the report for correct interpretation.
Caveat re: Screened-out Offences
All sexual offences are screened in for further investigation. Indecent Images of Children offences are transferred into the MPS for recording where they have been investigated but there are no further lines of enquiry for the MPS to follow up. They are transferred to the MPS on the basis that the suspect lives “somewhere in London”. As such, these offences are screened out.
Please also note that the MPS works within the guidelines of the Crime Assessment Principles to decide on whether a crime will be allocated for further investigation, which all victims are made aware of. I have included a link below to these principles (Pg.4-8) for your reference:
https://www.met.police.uk/SysSiteAssets/foi-media/metropolitan-police/disclosure_2021/june_2021/copy-of-internal-correspondence-of-crime-screening-policy