Community safety dashboard

Please note, there have been changes both in categories recorded and in recording practice which have significantly impacted the figures.

The crime survey for England and Wales 2020 (CSEW) has a section on Coronavirus and crime statistics in the year ending March 2020 which indicates that the publication is largely unaffected by the survey being suspended two weeks early on 18 March 2020.

The crime data integrity re-inspection 2019 judged Lancashire Constabulary has significantly improved its crime-recording arrangements since the 2017 inspection. the 2018/19 PEEL assessment says that "the constabulary's accuracy in terms of crime recording is assessed as good".

For more information on how the police count recorded crime, please look at the Home Office Crime Counting Rules.

Notes:

1. Police recorded crime data are not designated as National Statistics.                          
2. When interpreting data for police force areas, users should be aware of recent changes to recording practices. For further information see Section 3.3 of the User Guide.                          
3.  Currently, offences of fraud are excluded from subnational breakdowns of police recorded crime. Action Fraud have taken over the recording of fraud offences on behalf of individual police forces. In the year ending March 2023 Action Fraud recorded 319,315 offences of fraud against victims living in England or Wales(excluding Devon and Cornwall). This represents an decrease of 15% in the volume of offences recorded by Action Fraud compared with the previous year and is equivalent to a rate of 5.0 offences of fraud recorded per 1,000 head of population by Action Fraud.                    
4. From the year ending June 2017  'Stalking and harassment' and 'Death or serious injury caused by illegal driving' offences have been removed from the violence with and without injury sub-categories and now form separate sub categories within the violence against the person category. 

 

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Page last updated August 2024