Cancelled Crime Reports - Rape and Historic Sexual Abuse 2017-2020
Keywords
Cancelled, Crime, No-Crimes, Reports, Rape, Historic, Sexual Abuse, Outcomes, Offence, Sub-Group,
Publication number
PUB 1168
FOI reference number
15451
Request title
Cancelled Crime Reports - Rape & Historic Sexual Abuse
Date range
01 March 2017 to 30 September 2020
Information requested
I would like to be provided with the following information relating to cancelled crime, formerly 'no-crimes', as defined in Police Recorded Crime and Outcomes User Guide, Page 19. Please note that there are two parts to my request.
1) From March 2017 to September 2020, please provide me with detailed case files for cancelled crime reports related to the offence sub-group 'rape'.
2) If it does not push this request over the cost limit, and you have easily accessible data relating to this request, from March 2017 to September 2020, please provide me with detailed case files for cancelled crime reports related to 'historic sexual abuse' crime.
Disclosure with exemptions
Part Disclosure with Section 40(2) and Section 44(1) Exemptions
Information correct as at
09 April 2021
Date of disclosure
21 April 2021
Related documents/links
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables
FOI 15451 response
Having completed enquiries within Essex Police in respect of Section 1(1)(a), Essex Police does hold information relating to your request, Essex Police can confirm in respect of Section 1(1)(b) the following data:
Caveat: The data is correct as at 08 April 2021.
The data is run by disposal date between 01 March 2017 and 30 September 2020.
Please note that we are unable to actually provide ‘detailed case files’, however, we can provide cancelled crimes by disposal date.
1) From March 2017 to September 2020, please provide me with detailed case files for cancelled crime reports related to the offence sub-group 'rape'.
From March 2017 to September 2020, there have been 506 cancelled crimes related to Rape Offences. Please see breakdown of reasons why they were cancelled below:
|
Offence |
Count of CRN |
|---|---|
|
RAPE |
506 |
|
C1 Transfer |
145 |
|
C2 Cancel Additional Verifiable Information |
142 |
|
C3 Cancel Duplicate |
181 |
|
C4 Cancel Recorded in Error |
38 |
2) If it does not push this request over the cost limit, and you have easily accessible data relating to this request, from March 2017 to September 2020, please provide me with detailed case files for cancelled crime reports related to 'historic sexual abuse' crime.
From March 2017 to September 2020, there have been 147 cancelled crimes related to Other Sexual Offences which have been classed as ‘historic’ (where there is more than a year between created date and committed date). Please see breakdown of reasons why they were cancelled below:
|
Offence |
Count of CRN |
|---|---|
|
OTHER SEXUAL OFFENCES |
147 |
|
C1 Transfer |
64 |
|
C2 Cancel Additional Verifiable Information |
18 |
|
C3 Cancel Duplicate |
47 |
|
C4 Cancel Recorded in Error |
18 |
Essex Police will not provide any further breakdown or information as the exemptions under FOI Section 40(2) Personal Information and Section 44(1) Information Covered by Prohibitions on Disclosure such as the Sexual Offences (amendment) act 1992 which provides anonymity to victims of sexual offences.
The below context has been provided by the Head of Investigations, Crime & Public Protection Command:
Duplicate and Crime Recorded in Error are merely system issues. Transferred crimes will obviously go to the relevant Force area to investigate. Where crimes are cancelled due to Additional Verifiable Information (AVI) – we have very strong and robust systems in place around this and we work closely with the Force Crime Registrar and victims will be updated on the outcome.
The Force has been graded as outstanding for crime data accuracy by the HMIC and in the HMIC Rape Thematic Inspection last year they found NFA decisions were being correctly applied to cases.
Every effort is made to ensure that the data provided by Essex Police is accurate and complete. However, Essex Police systems are designed primarily for the management of individual cases and not for the purposes of providing data to answer specific FOI enquiries. Please note although data can be extracted from a number of sources via database queries, the results may be subject to inaccuracies. Care should be taken to understand our return when considering the interpretation or further use of the data.
The Force Information Management Board, chaired by the Deputy Chief Constable has oversight of the Force wide programme of work to improve the quality of Force data. This work has identified data quality leads in all key areas of the business including the Crime and Public Protection Command. Liaison between the Force Data Quality Team and the Crime and Public Protection Command lead for data quality will identify and resolve issues through a variety of mechanisms to ensure regular and appropriate supervisory oversight.
The following policy, procedures and publication gives the updated instructions regarding the recording of crime and our processes: