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Victim Right to Review (VRR) requests received from 2022 to 2024

Freedom of information request reference no: 01.FOI.25.045734

I note you seek access to the following information:

  • Can you please provide me with the following information for each of the three most recent years that you hold data for (i.e, calendar years 2022, 2023, 2024 or financial years 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25):
  • Number of Victim Right to Review (VRR) requests received by the Metropolitan Police for previously closed criminal investigations.
  • Number of criminal investigations subsequently reopened following VRR requests
  • Number of criminal investigations subsequently reopened following VRR requests that were put to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for consideration of a charging decision.
  • Number of reopened criminal investigations subsequently reopened following VRR requests that were put to the CPS, which resulted in charge for a criminal offence.

Decision

I have today decided to disclose the located information to you in full. Please find below information pursuant to your request above.

The information is provided in calendar years.

The information provided below has been generated from the following databases:

Crime Report Information System (CRIS) and CONNECT.

CRIS is an electronic management system that records criminal offences on crime reports, where actions related to a crime investigation can be documented.

CONNECT is an integrated core policing solution, which replaces eight of our existing data capture systems with one connected system

The data below has also been sourced via our VRR SPOC (Single Point of Contact) network from each MPS Basic Command Unit and a database called Single Online Home where the applications are made via an online portal. The online portal went live late February 2022 which is why the totals for April 2021 until end of March 2022 are low. Prior to the online portal all applications were made was via direct email. As advised to you on 04/08/2025, we are unable to locate, retrieve and collate this information within the FOIA cost / research threshold due to the correspondence being in the thousands, consisting of initial applications, follow up emails and officers making general contact. You agreed that the data that we can provide within the cost / research threshold would suffice.

It is pertinent to note that although the email applications were not recorded prior to the online platform, we still had a structure in place to monitor VRR’s meeting the criteria. In short, we did not tally applications that did not meet the criteria, only ones that did meet the criteria and this data is below.

Q1- Can you please provide me with the following information for each of the three most recent years that you hold data for (i.e, calendar years 2022, 2023, 2024 or financial years 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25):

Q1a- Number of Victim Right to Review (VRR) requests received by the Metropolitan Police for previously closed criminal investigations

Received Victim Right to Review (VRR)

2022 - Connect 0 (connect not live). CRIS 126 requested by victim
2023 – Connect 20. CRIS 167
2024 – Connect 266. CRIS 48

Q1b- Number of criminal investigations subsequently reopened following VRR requests

Successful

2022 - Connect 0 (not live). CRIS 27
2023 – Connect 0. CRIS 20
2024 – Connect 79 CRIS 5

Unsuccessful

2022 – Connect 0 (connect not live). CRIS 51
2023 – Connect 0. CRIS 55
2024 – Connect 99. CRIS 13

Q1c - Number of criminal investigations subsequently reopened following VRR requests that were put to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for consideration of a charging decision.

Reopened

2022 – Connect 0. CRIS 27
2023 – Connect 0. CRIS 20
2024 – Connect 79. CRIS 5

Q1d - Number of reopened criminal investigations subsequently reopened following VRR requests that were put to the CPS, which resulted in charge for a criminal offence.

This information is not held by the MPS. This type of information is held by the CPS