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
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Correspondence
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Tony O’Connor to Ed Humpherson: Cancellation of Accredited Official Statistics status of War Pension Scheme
1 July 2026
Tony O'Connor, Ministry of Defence to Ed Humpherson, Office for Statistics Regulation
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OSR Casework correspondence: VAWG-Statistics Usage and Framing
12 June 2026
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Ed Humpherson to Sylvia Walby and Brian Francis: ONS’s combined measure of domestic abuse, sexual assault and stalking
5 June 2026
Ed Humpherson, Office for Statistics Regulation to Sylvia Walby, Brian Francis, Lancaster University
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John Wilkins to Ed Humpherson: Regularising knife crime statistics
27 May 2026
John Wilkins, Home Office to Ed Humpherson, Office for Statistics Regulation
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Ed Humpherson to John Wilkins: Metrics in the violence against women and girls strategy
15 May 2026
Ed Humpherson, Office for Statistics Regulation to John Wilkins, Home Office
Publications
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Compliance review of War Pensions Scheme statistics
1 July 2026
Published in: Compliance review
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Compliance review of statistics from the Cyber Security Breaches Survey
20 March 2026
Published in: Compliance review
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Compliance review of Justice Data Lab statistics
11 December 2025
Published in: Compliance review
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Compliance review of domestic abuse estimates from the Crime Survey for England and Wales
21 October 2025
Published in: Assessment Report
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Compliance review of coroners statistics
18 August 2025
Published in: Compliance review
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Review of fraud and computer misuse statistics for England and Wales
3 April 2025
Published in: Systemic Reviews
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Review of the quality of criminal court statistics for England and Wales
20 March 2025
Published in: Reviews
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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
News & Events
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Statement on the use of statistics relating to violence against women and girls in Northern Ireland
26 June 2026
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OSR statement on statistics from the Crime Survey for England and Wales
2 April 2026
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OSR statement on crime statistics
23 July 2025
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OSR publishes report on the quality of police recorded crime statistics for England and Wales
16 May 2024
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OSR launches review of the quality of police recorded crime statistics
20 July 2023
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OSR statement on fraud statistics
20 September 2019