Online System For Reporting Crime - 935/19

Date Responded 21 August 2019

Provision of information held by Northumbria Police made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the 'Act')

As you may be aware the purpose of the Act is to allow a general right of access to information held at the time of a request, by a Public Authority (including the Police), subject to certain limitations and exemptions.

You asked:

Does your force have an online system for reporting crime? If yes, when was the online system implemented?
If you do have an online system for reporting crime, what categories of crime are the public able to report (please list the categories as they appear on the website)?
Does each crime report submitted online directly generate a record of a crime? If not what are the steps to a crime record being created?
Does each crime report submitted generate a call-back requirement for the force?
How many crimes have been reported online in the three years 1st April 2016 to 31st March 2019 or for the period since the online reporting system was launched. (Please break down the number of crimes reported by calendar month)

In Response:

Yes - 1st November 2009. To note - we cannot categorically say that members of the public only use this service to report a crime as they can navigate the system to report non crime matters.
Any type of crime can be reported, NP do not have a category framework.
No - Primary Investigation Officers will review the on-line report, create an incident and crime where applicable.
Yes.

	2016	2017	2018	2019
Jan		284	269	348
Feb		194	263	434
Mar		264	321	505
Apr	268	308	308
May	353	292	332
Jun	308	275	321
Jul	294	342	407
Aug	311	343	365
Sep	338	292	407
Oct	392	300	365
Nov	329	314	407
Dec	296	241	445

Disclaimer

Due to the different methods of recording information across 43 forces, a specific response from one constabulary should not be seen as an indication of what information could be supplied (within cost) by another. Systems used for recording these figures are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data. For this reason responses between forces may differ, and should not be used for comparative purposes.

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