Counting Rules for recorded crime
We apply the Counting Rules across nine categories of recorded crime. Download any of the categories below for a breakdown of the offences in each and explanations of how they are classified.
Most recent revisions April 2012
- Counting Rules for recorded crime introduction
- Layout of Classification and Counting Rules pages
- Counting Rules Summary of Update April 2012
- Counting Rules General Rules
- Counting Rules for Violence against the Person
- Counting Rules for Sexual Offences
- Counting Rules for Robbery
- Counting Rules for Burglary
- Counting Rules for Theft & Handling Stolen Goods
- Counting Rules for Fraud & Forgery
- Counting Rules for Criminal Damage
- Counting Rules for Drug Offences
- Counting Rules for Other Offences
- Counting Rules Notifiable Offences list 2012/13
Key documents
More publications
- See more crime research and statistics publications
- Read all research and statistics publications on this website
- Archived RDS website - for publications from before May 2010
Our work
The Home Office Counting Rules provide a national standard for the recording and counting of ‘notifiable’ offences recorded by police forces in England and Wales (known as ’recorded crime’).
We revised the Rules to take account of the National Crime Recording Standard (NCRS), which was adopted on 1 April 2002, with the aim of recording crime in a more victim-focused way and maintaining greater consistency between police forces in the recording of crime.
Working groups consult and develop policy on crime recording, they include members from:
- Home Office
- police forces
- Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO)
- Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC)
- Crown Prosecution Service
See also
Publications
Internet links
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- Archived RDS website
- Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary
- Association of Chief Police Officers
- National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA)
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