Number of Offences recorded by the Metropolitan Police Service, where
CCTV was Involved Financial Years 03/04, 04/05, 05/06, 07/08 and 08/09
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Number of Offences recorded by the Metropolitan Police Service, where CCTV
Summary
was Involved Financial Years 03/04, 04/05, 05/06, 07/08 and 08/09
Creating Branch / Directorate
Performance Information
Date Created
09/09/2009
This report uses DATA extracted from CRIS
Date Data was extracted: 09/09/09
Police forces in the United Kingdom are routinely required to provide crime statistics to government
bodies and the recording criteria is set nationally. However, the systems used for recording these figures
are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the crime data. It should be noted that
for these reasons this force's response to your questions should not be used for comparison purposes
with any other response you may receive.
In addition, the data in this report reflects data on the MPS crime system, which may be subject to small
changes over time
Last Refresh Date: 09/09/09
FOI Request Number: 200901000551
Performance Information Helpdesk
Data is subject to daily change
Important Information
Currently the MPS records the presence at a crime of a CCTV camera, on the electronic crime record. It is used solely to mark the record that a
cctv was present at some location prior, during or after the crime. The flag does not indicate if cctv footage was obtained by the investigation team
nor is the record marked to show that one particular piece of evidence solved the crime.
To produce an indication of the number of offences solved by cctv footage, it would require retrieving the paper case documentation for each crime
recorded in the MPS, and have a trained investigator read through these case notes, and determine if the case was "solved" by CCTV footage, or led
to additional evidence that resulted in the crime being cleared up, by action against an individual.
The creation of this data would take about two hours to perform per case, and given that the MPS would have recorded on average about one million
offences per year since 1999, this process would be outside cost limit.
Notes
Data extracted from the CRIS system on the 09/09/2009
Feature Codes used:
AF:
Venue within sight of CCTV
AG:
Susp/Acc not captured on CCTV for id. Purposes
AH
Susp/Acc captured on CCTV id. Possible
AI:
CCTV Defective/Broken/Poor Quality
NB: These values were only used for data prior to March 2006
Ven CCTV Options used:CA, CB, CC, CG, CH, CJ, CL, CM, CT, CV
NB: These values were only used for data from March 2006 onwards.
The feature codes were made redundant on the 24th March 2006 and the Venue CCTV codes were introduced. This change affected the
way in which these crime are being recorded so this is why there is a major difference when comparing years 06/07, 07/08, 08/09 to previous years
An offence run was done using above feature codes and VEN options, an accused run was done using above feature codes and VEN options. The CRIS
numbers were then compared and all accused that had matching CRIS numbers were returned to give the numbers for the accused table
Procedings type used: AB, AF, AS, AT, BJ, BK, CE, CR
The information supplied has been collated from a live data source system in response to your specific request. Comparing this data directly with information supplied as
part of another FOIA request, or with data from other sources may result in distorted and misleading figures. If you require data directly comparable to the information
supplied here please submit a further request under the Freedom of Information Act quoting the reference number printed at the top of this letter.
Last Refresh Date: 09/09/09
FOI Request Number: 200901000551
Performance Information Helpdesk
Data is subject to daily change
Number of Offences recorded by the Metropolitan Police Service, where CCTV was Involved
Financial Years 03/04, 04/05, 05/06, 07/08 and 08/09
Offences in which Total Notifiable
Financial Year
CCTV was
offences
involved
03/04
415865
1058891
04/05
381735
1015107
05/06
343601
984125
06/07
115326
921715
07/08
114792
862900
08/09
121770
844911
Grand Total
1493089
5687649
Number of the above Offences which resulted in a Charge, Summons or Caution
Offences in which
Financial Year
CCTV was
involved
03/04
47393
04/05
42208
05/06
40366
06/07
20279
07/08
22010
08/09
22663
Grand Total
194919
The information supplied has been collated from a live data source system in response to your specific request.
Comparing this data directly with information supplied as part of another FOIA request, or with data from other sources
may result in distorted and misleading figures. If you require data directly comparable to the information supplied here
please submit a further request under the Freedom of Information Act quoting the reference number printed at the top of
this letter.
Last Refresh Date: 09/09/09
FOI Request Number: 200901000551
Performance Information Helpdesk
Data is subject to daily change
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