Crime Of The Century - A Chilling Look At Crime Statistics In The UK
(c) All reports that amount to a NICL incident, whether from a member of the public, a representative of another agency (voluntary or official) or a member of police staff, must be recorded in accordance with the NSIR Counting Rules; (d) The decision to start the recording process will be based on first contact information. The opening of a record should not be delayed pending an investigation. This means that the closure category may well differ from the opening category following investigation. (e) Once recorded under the NICL, a report will remain recorded as such, unless reasonable grounds, based on additional verifiable information, come to light to contradict what has been reported. The principles, like all aspects of the Standard may require interpretation or qualification. Guidance will be provided on an ongoing basis but change to the Standard will only be made once per annum.
An Incident Report: when to record It is essential, if consistency of approach is to be maintained, in keeping with the established principles of the National Crime Recording Standard (NCRS) that clarity exists around what an incident report amounts to. NCRS provides that:
“All reports of incidents, whether from victims, witnesses or third parties, whether crime related or not, will result in the registration of an incident report by the police”.
For the purposes of NSIR, a report is any communication, by whatever means, about a matter that comes to the attention of the police, which amounts to a NICL incident. At present the emphasis continues to be on reports received via telephony and front offices. As part of the wider National Contact Management Programme and within the ACPO Citizen Focus business area work will continue to assess the level of contact that occurs through other channels (particularly neighbourhood policing) and to scope the benefits and implications of any expansion of NSIR in the future.
The NICL has expanded the initial NLI which focused only on core business to ensure the accuracy and consistency of recording of all call types. It is important to stress that it is the purpose of the Standard to inform and support strategic and operational decision-making.
To gain a consistent approach, to meet all stakeholder needs and to guard against perverse incentive, an incident will not be defined on the basis of whether police take action or not. The emphasis within NSIR is on closing categories, which reflect the reality of what has occurred, acknowledging that it is often difficult to second-guess outcomes at the point of initial contact. The use of opening codes remains a matter for forces to determine at local level and there are currently no plans to mandate their use.
http://www.acpo.police.uk/documents/partnerships/2010/201003LPPNCM01.pdf
Not all incidents reported to the police are crime or crime-related. In fact, in some Forces, over 75% of ‘calls for service’ are non-crime related. However, until now there has been no
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