2025/28532 - Crime outcomes April 2024-March 2025
REQUEST
Dear FOI team,
For 1 Apr 2024 to 31 March 2025, please could you provide a breakdown of the number of crime outcomes for your police force split by whether the suspect was an adult, child (under 18), or unknown. Please use the outcome groups from the Home Office police outcomes statistics, which are listed below.
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Outcome group |
Adults |
Children |
Unknown |
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Out-of-court (formal) - i.e. cautions and penalty notices for disorder |
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Out-of-court (informal) - i.e. community resolutions |
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Diversionary, educational or intervention activity, resulting from the crime report, has been undertaken and it is not in the public interest to take any further action. |
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Charged/Summonsed |
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Evidential difficulties (suspect identified; victim supports action) |
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Evidential difficulties (victim does not support action) |
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Prosecution prevented or not in the public interest |
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Further investigation to support formal action not in the public interest – police decision |
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Responsibility for further investigation transferred to another body |
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Taken into consideration |
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Investigation complete – no suspect identified |
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Not yet assigned an outcome |
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If your outcome data are not grouped as above, we would be grateful if you could please group them accordingly using the below guide (retrieved from this Home Office document):
RESPONSE
FOLLOW UP REQUEST:
The data you've sent is not complete and not in the format requested.
The request was, for 1 Apr 2024 to 31 March 2025, please could you provide a breakdown of the number of crime outcomes for your police force split by whether the suspect was an adult, child (under 18), or unknown. Please use the outcome groups from the Home Office police outcomes statistics, which are attached.
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Outcome group |
Adults |
Children |
Unknown |
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Out-of-court (formal) - i.e. cautions and penalty notices for disorder |
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Out-of-court (informal) - i.e. community resolutions |
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Diversionary, educational or intervention activity, resulting from the crime report, has been undertaken and it is not in the public interest to take any further action. |
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Charged/Summonsed |
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Evidential difficulties (suspect identified; victim supports action) |
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Evidential difficulties (victim does not support action) |
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Prosecution prevented or not in the public interest |
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Further investigation to support formal action not in the public interest – police decision |
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Responsibility for further investigation transferred to another body |
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Taken into consideration |
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Investigation complete – no suspect identified |
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Not yet assigned an outcome |
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The crime outcome data you have sent does not include the following:
- Penalty Notices for Disorder (PND) (formal OOCR)
- Cannabis/khat warning (informal OOCR)
- Diversionary, educational or intervention activity, resulting from the crime report, has been undertaken and it is not in the public interest to take any further action (outcome 22)
Is it possible that you can provide this data too please? It does not need to be in the requested format, however to know the full number of formal OOCR, informal OOCR and diversionary actions taken, I require the above info.
ADDITIONAL QUESTION 03/06/25:
Please also provide figures on how many children (age 17 and under) were remanded (charged and detained for court) by your police force in the 12 months to y/e March 2025, broken down by ethnicity and offence type.
FOLLOW UP RESPONSE 10/06/25: