«We regard a comparison, without qualification, of
police recorded statistics between the late 1990s and 2008/09 as likely to mislead the public,» Sir Michael Scholar wrote to Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling earlier this year, after he made similar claims based on recorded violent crime figures.
Not exact matches
The report follows another report by the public administration select committee (PASC), which found that the public «can't rely on
Police Recorded Crime
Statistics».
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Methodology: Examination of
police custody and stop - and - search
records in four
police areas; observing
police officers in these areas; interviews with
police and young people in these areas; analysis of
statistics from 12 Youth Offending Team (YOT) areas.
The methodology of the crime
statistics changed significantly during that period, the BBC report suggested, because the alleged victim of the crime, rather than
police officers, decided whether it should be
recorded as a violent crime.
At the latest crime
statistics press conference,
Police Commissioner James O'Neill said that major crime was down 5.3 percent from last September — the lowest
recorded crime of any September on
record.
According to the minister, Ghana
recorded 84,142 cases of sexual and gender - based violence nationwide from 2009 to 2013, adding that
statistics from the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Ghana
Police Service indicated that 15,426 cases of sexual and gender - based violence with 14,415 assault cases on women were
recorded in 2014.
New
statistics provided by the Anchorage
Police Department show the city far surpassed the previous
record, set in...
Ministry of Justice
statistics from 2015 reveal that just 1,297 convictions were secured, representing less than four % of all cases
recorded by
police over the 12 months.
For example,
Statistics Canada's annual Homicide Survey asks
police to
record the number of Aboriginal victims and persons charged.