New Crime Stats

Members of the list may well be interested to view the annual crime statistics for England and Wales that were published last Thursday. These cover latest results from the British Crime Survey and police recorded crime. The spreadsheets and separate sections of the report can be downloaded at:

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/crimeew0708.html

including a summary of the main findings at http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs08/hosb0708summ.pdf

We have also made available 'beta' test versions of new mapping and tabulation software to analyse data by offence type and financial year for individual local authority areas (excel spreadsheet continue to be downloadable). We intend to further widen the offence coverage of these systems once full application of disclosure control has been applied. These new facilties can be found at:

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/soti.html


We would welcome feedback on the operation of these systems to crimestats.rds@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk and also any more general comments on this material.