Crime and Security
Our Crime and Security domain covers statistics on crime, policing, justice systems (family, civil and criminal) and national security.
We will review a range of justice statistics across the UK, covering topics such as prisons, youth justice and the criminal courts.
On crime, we will follow up the recommendations of our review of the quality of police recorded crime statistics for England and Wales. We will publish our complementary review of the quality and value and fraud and computer misuse statistics for England and Wales. And, we will publish our decision on the accreditation of the Office for National Statistics’ estimates from the Crime Survey for England and Wales, which had their accreditation suspended in 2022 due to quality concerns.
In our wider work, we will be engaging with smaller producers of crime and security official statistics across the UK.
Our regulators for this domain are Job and Ben. You can contact them via regulation@statistics.gov.uk”
Planned Work
| Project | Geography | Project Type | Timescale |
Correspondence
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OSR to Sai: Methodology of Justice Data Lab statistics
19 February 2025
Office for Statistics Regulation
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Jen Woolford to Ed Humpherson: Review of the quality of police recorded crime statistics for England and Wales
3 February 2025
Jen Woolford, Office for National Statistics to Ed Humpherson, Office for Statistics Regulation
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Ed Humpherson to Abbie Self: Review of MoJ’s criminal court statistics
21 November 2024
Ed Humpherson, Office for Statistics Regulation to Abbie Self, Ministry of Justice
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Ed Humpherson to Jen Woolford: Accreditation of the estimates from the Crime Survey for England and Wales
17 October 2024
Ed Humpherson, Office for Statistics Regulation to Jennet Woolford, Office for National Statistics
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Ed Humpherson to Maya Esslemont and Anna Powell-Smith: Modern slavery data
18 September 2024
Ed Humpherson, Office for Statistics Regulation to Maya Esslemont, Anna Powell-Smith, After Exploitation
Publications
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Election 2024: What to look out for
7 June 2024
Published in: Guidance
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The quality of police recorded crime statistics for England and Wales
16 May 2024
Published in: Systemic Reviews
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Systemic Review Outline: Police recorded crime statistics – quality review
11 May 2023
Published in: Systemic Review Outline, Systemic Reviews
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Assessment of compliance with the Code of Practice for Statistics: Scottish prison population statistics
13 January 2023
Published in: Assessment Report
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Assessment of compliance with the Code of Practice for Statistics: Police officer uplift statistics
20 July 2022
Published in: Assessment Report
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Assessment Report: Police Funding for England and Wales Statistics
3 June 2021
Published in: Assessment Report
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Northern Ireland Courts and Tribunals Service statistics
9 March 2020
Published in: Breach Report
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Assessment Report – PSNI Motoring Offence Statistics
17 December 2019
Published in: Assessment Report
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Policing Review: Phase Two – Media Analysis
1 November 2019
Published in: Systemic Reviews
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Use of Policing Statistics in Public Discourse
27 March 2019
Published in: Systemic Reviews