Crime outcomes 625/2024
FOI Reference: 625/2024
Request:
For 1 Apr 2023 to 31 March 2024, please could you provide a breakdown of the number of crime outcomes for your police force split by whether the suspect was an adult, child (under 18), or unknown. Please use the outcome groups from the Home Office police outcomes statistics, which are listed below.
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Outcome group |
Adults |
Children |
Unknown |
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Out-of-court (formal) - i.e. cautions and penalty notices for disorder |
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Out-of-court (informal) - i.e. community resolutions |
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Diversionary, educational or intervention activity, resulting from the crime report, has been undertaken and it is not in the public interest to take any further action. |
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Charged/Summonsed |
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Evidential difficulties (suspect identified; victim supports action) |
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Evidential difficulties (victim does not support action) |
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Prosecution prevented or not in the public interest |
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Further investigation to support formal action not in the public interest – police decision |
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Responsibility for further investigation transferred to another body |
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Taken into consideration |
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Investigation complete – no suspect identified |
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Not yet assigned an outcome |
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If your outcome data are not grouped as above, we would be grateful if you could please group them accordingly using the below guide (retrieved from this Home Office document):
Clarification sought 05/07/2024:-
Would you like data on offences reported between 1 Apr 2023 to 31 March 2024 or offences finalised between 1 Apr 2023 to 31 March 2024?
- If we provide the data using the reported date filtered down to 1 Apr 2023 to 31 March 2024 then it won’t provide any outcomes for crimes reported outside of these dates regardless if the outcome was applied during this date range.
- If we provide the data using the outcome date filtered down to 1 Apr 2023 to 31 March 2024 then it won’t show any ongoing investigations due to them not having an outcome date and will only show crimes with an outcome applied during these dates regardless of when it was reported.
Clarification received 05/07/24
Finalised offences/outcome dates 1 Apr 2023 to 31 March 2024
Response
I can confirm Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, as outlined below.
Please see the requested figures below which include the volume of offences finalised between 1 Apr 2023 to 31 March 2024 broken down by outcome. As applicant clarified, the outcome date was used rather than reported date.
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Outcome group |
Adults |
Children |
Unknown |
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Out-of-court (formal) - i.e. cautions and penalty notices for disorder |
423 |
122 |
75 |
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Out-of-court (informal) - i.e. community resolutions |
1378 |
362 |
158 |
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Diversionary, educational or intervention activity, resulting from the crime report, has been undertaken and it is not in the public interest to take any further action. |
14 |
81 |
14 |
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Charged/Summonsed |
1875 |
119 |
337 |
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Evidential difficulties (suspect identified; victim supports action) |
5325 |
705 |
1664 |
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Evidential difficulties (victim does not support action) |
6029 |
1241 |
3393 |
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Prosecution prevented or not in the public interest |
455 |
189 |
152 |
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Further investigation to support formal action not in the public interest – police decision |
105 |
82 |
78 |
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Responsibility for further investigation transferred to another body |
221 |
119 |
189 |
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Taken into consideration |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Investigation complete – no suspect identified |
371 |
68 |
7338 |
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Not yet assigned an outcome |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
In addition to these figures, there were also 1924 offences Cancelled/Transferred during the time period
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It should be noted that as a result of the systems adopted by Dyfed-Powys Police in relation to the recording of such information that the information released may or may not be accurate.
Furthermore, it should also be noted that 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.
(This is a response under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and disclosed on 15/07/2024)