House of Commons - Caught red-handed: Why we can't count on Police Recorded Crime statistics

Public Administration Committee - Thirteenth Report
Caught red-handed: Why we can't count on Police Recorded Crime statistics

Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 1 April 2014.

Contents

Terms of Reference

Summary

1 Introduction

2 Police Recorded Crime (PRC)

Background

Previous reports since 2000 documenting concerns about crime statistics

Concerns about data quality

Misrecording of sexual offences

The role of the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW)

3 Removal of National Statistics status

The Crime Statistics Advisory Committee (CSAC)

Implications for other public sector administrative statistics

4 Police leadership, values and culture

The College of Policing Code of Ethics

Target-chasing versus data integrity

The move away from national targets

Broader concerns about police values

Whistleblowing

5 Monitoring and audit

Monitoring of crime recording since 2002

HMIC's 2014 Crime Data integrity inspection

6 Police and Crime Commissioners

Conclusions and recommendations

Formal Minutes

Witnesses

Published written evidence

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