Crime Of The Century - A Chilling Look At Crime Statistics In The UK
reflect police workload and activity rather than underlying levels of crime. For example, in recent years the increases in recorded drug offences are thought to have been influenced by proactive policing in this area.
Recorded crime trends since 1981
Recorded crime increased during most of the 1980s, reaching a peak in 1992, and then fell each year until 1998/99 when the expanded coverage and changes in the Counting Rules resulted in an increase in recorded offences. This was followed by the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard (NCRS) in April 2002, although some forces adopted NCRS practices before the standard was formally introduced.
The introduction of NCRS led to a rise in recording in 2002/03 and, particularly for less serious violent crime, in following years as forces continued to improve compliance with the new standard.
Recorded crime trends since 2002/03
Comparisons of more detailed breakdowns of police recorded crime are restricted to the years after the introduction of the NCRS in April 2002 when the underlying basis for crime recording substantially changed. The following changes can be seen since 2002/03.
• The number of domestic burglaries and offences against vehicles recorded by the police fell between 2002/03 and 2009/10 by 39 per cent and 54 per cent respectively, while the number of offences of criminal damage fell by 28 per cent over the same period. • Recorded violence against the person increased initially between 2002/03 and 2005/06 (to 1.1 million offences) which partly reflects the time taken for the new rules to be adopted across police forces for some of these offences. Since 2005/06, the number of violence against the person offences recorded by the police has decreased by 18 per cent, to less than 0.9 million offences in 2009/10. • The number of homicides recorded by the police fluctuates from year to year, and it can be difficult to identify clear trends. However, since 2002/03 there does appear to be a downward trend in homicide offences (even after taking account of the 172 homicides attributed to Harold Shipman which were recorded in 2002/03 but committed in previous years). The latest provisional figures show that there were 615 homicides in 2009/10, nearly a third lower (30%) than the total recorded in 2002/03 (excluding the Shipman cases).
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