Screened out crimes within 24 hours recroded from January 2019 to February 2022

Freedom of information request reference no: 01.FOI.22.023351

I note you seek access to the following information:

I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 on the amount of “screened out” crimes within 24 hours of being reported for the following calendar years: 2019, 2020, 2021 and to date (1st February 2022)

Please can you provide me for each calendar year:

1. The total number of crimes that have been “screened out” for further investigation or ‘filed’ shortly after it was reported to the police.
2. These are cases which do not qualify for investigation after an initial screening process. This also includes reported crimes closed within 24 hours, without a police officer being assigned to it. Please break this information down into individual offence as per the Count Offence Classification Index.
3. Please can you provide me with the total number of crimes reported to your force for the calendar years 2019, 2020, 2021 and to date (1st February 2022). Please break this information down into individual offence as per the Count Offence Classification Index.

Decision

I have today decided to disclose the located information to you in full.

Please find below an excel spreadsheet with the information requested.
Please ensure that the Notes Page is read in conjunction with the data in the report for the correct interpretation.

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: copy-of-internal-correspondence-of-crime-screening-policy3