National Crime Recording Standards (England and Wales)

In England and Wales, the principle of the National Crime Recording Standard is to direct how statistics about notifiable offences are collected by police forces.

[2] The Government has delegated the task of inspecting a police forces compliance with the National Crime Recording Standard to Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire Rescue Service (HMICFS), previously called Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary.

[3] A Home Office paper, published in 2014, was critical of the notifiable offence statistics provided by police forces.

[4] In 2014, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC), published the report, ‘Crime Recording-Making the Victim Count’.

[6] Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire Rescue Service reports findings about how a police force is complying with crime recording standards is published on its website.

[12] The national media has taken an interest in police forces incorrectly recording crime, for example mentioning that in 2017 the North Yorkshire Police failed to record 9,200 notifiable offences, 1 in 5 crimes reported to it, including sexual offences, domestic abuse, and rapes.

In summary, there are five reasons for no-criming, (1)The notifiable offences passed to another police force that has jurisdiction for the place for investigation and recording.