Crime Reporting and Recording
Assignment Task 12.2 Reporting and Recording Crime
P4
Identify the process involved to report and record crime.
Identify the different processes to report crime
Different methods of reporting
Identify the different processes to record crime
National Crime Recording Standards used
Standards set by the National Intelligence Model
M2
Describe how the National Crime Recording Standards impacted nationally upon the police service and the effect on crime statistics.
Describe the impact on crime statistics
Describe the impact on the Police Service
D2
Evaluate the impact of national crime recording on crime reduction.
Evaluate the impact of crime recording and crime reduction.
Reporting Crime
Difference in context between urgent and non-urgent
Urgent
When someone life or well-being is being or is in danger of being compromised
Suspected terrorist activity
Violence
Robbery
etc.
Non-urgent
Crimes that do not require an immediate emergency response
Fraud
Child Pornography
Virus Writing
Hacking
Internet Crime
Ways to report a crime
Urgent
Calling 999
Non-urgent
Phoning the Police on a non-urgent line
Contacting the Police in Person-Police station?
Phone the local Community Safety Unit
How do you report a crime?
1.If possible, write down what you see as soon as possible after you observe the crime
2.Use technology... most cell phones have cameras or even video... record what you see.
3.Do not attempt to stop the criminal, record, stay out of sight, and report.
Report
•name
•time, day, date of incident
•time, day, date of recording
•how the crime was reported
•who reported the crime and the method
•location
•modus operandi – this field should be as complete as possible because it often forms the basis for identifying suspects.
Crime Recording Standards
What are Crime Recording Standards?
Why do we need Crime Recording Standards (Spec)
To promote greater consistency between police forces
To emphasise a victim orientated approach to crime reporting
To co-ordinate reporting of crime from victim, witnesses, third parties
Crimes recorded based on balance of probability, circumstances amounting to a crime as defined by law, no evidence to the contrary
What there was before the NCRS
Police Link
What are the standards then?
National Crime Recording Standards (NCRS)
National Crime Reporting Standard
How they impacted nationally upon the police and the effects on statistics
How they reduce crime.
Crime Recording
An auditable user-friendly system
Crime management units
Crime classification
Full training for staff tasked with recording crime eg customer care skills, investigative skills, victim support knowledge
Crime Recording Process
The impact of Crime Recording on Crime Reduction
National Intelligence Model
A guide to the National intelligence Model (NIM)
Process to Report and Record a Crime
Report Crime
Different methods of reporting
Crime Recording
by who?
National Crime Recording Standards used
Standards set by the National Intelligence Model