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Police Crime Statistics

Politiële Criminaliteitsstatistieken

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Statistical product
Country: Belgium
Topics:
Violence
Types of GBV:
Intimate Partner Violence, Sexual Assault (excl. rape), Rape, Stalking
The data was collected in 2013 and may not accurately represent the present situation. The examples from the United Kingdom were published before the country's withdrawal from the European Union on 31 January 2020.

Types of GBV

  • Intimate Partner Violence
  • Rape
  • Sexual Assault (excl. rape)
  • Sexual Harassment
  • Stalking

Issues in terms of retrieving raw data

No
Additional information: 

There is a regular exchange and close cooperation between the national Agency compiling the statistics and the state level agencies providing the data.

Draw also on survey data

No

Used as indicator

Yes
  • Monitoring (trend data)
  • Evaluation

Data available on

Victim

Background information

  • Age
  • Sex
  • Nationality
  • ID
  • Name
  • Ethnicity
  • Marital status
  • Dependants

Relationship with perpetrator

Perpetrator

This statistical product does not collect information on Perpetrator

Incident

Incident

Yes
Other content: 

Incident data, with remarks about the evolution and footnotes about possible explanations for this evolution (influence of legal framework -> increase of cases of IPV after circulars concerning definition, registration and approach of IPV are published; high dark number with sexual crimes). Rape: victim age. Sexual assault: number of incidents in which no violence was used, victim age.

Criminal statistics on sexual violence

Criminal statistical data included

Yes
Additional information: 

Rape and sexual harassment. Includes incident number, definitions and information about the age of the victim.

Characteristics

Reference period

1 year

Frequency of updating

Ongoing

Validation

Yes
Additional information: 

Guidelines in circular COL 3/2006 about registering data concerning partner violence. Standardized police form for registering data of partner violence. Guidelines in circulars for registering data about sexual violence.

Compilation

Data compiled from General national database, to which all information from local police districts are sent.

Quality assurance process

Yes
Brief description: 

The data are registered in a uniform way, by standardized registration systems. Service for police information watches over quality of data in database. A section of this service is responsible for working out a control system to guarantee quality of data.

Accuracy

No information. Results are based on facts registered with the police, they potentially suffer from dark number.

Reliability

Good. Guidelines in circulars should provide sufficient reliability (e.g. COL 3/2006). In practice, there may be small differences in registration practice between police districts.

Timeliness

Good. The data are reported very soon, annually. The data are registered ongoing. Therefore, timeliness is considered to be good. The product also discusses the evolution of crime over time (ten years)

Comparability

  • Geographical
  • Over time
  • None

Current developments

Circular 4/2006 has been evaluated and will be revised soon.

External link

Yes
Links: 

General national database (ANG)

Website

Link to website

Metadata

Organisation: 
Service Administrative Data, Direction of operational police information, Federal Police
Type of organisation: 
PUB
Sector:
Police
Latest update: 
2010