Europos lyčių lygybės institutas
Europos lyčių lygybės institutas

Police Records of Crime

Types of GBV

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

The police does not systematically collect data on Intimate Partner Violence, but does flag it

Purpose of data collection

  • Ensure victim protection from perpetrator
  • Inform/evaluate policy
  • Contribute to other organisation database
Other purpose: 

The PNC has become more of an investigative tool rather than its original purpose of a record keeping one.

Data available on

Victim

Background information

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

Relationship with perpetrator

No information available

Repeatedly suffering from GBV

No information available

Perpetrator

Background information

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

If convicted/arrested: Fingerprints and DNA

Relationship with victim

No information available

Re-offending

No information available

Witness

Background information

No information collected on Background information

Relationship with victim/perpetrator

No information available

Incident description by witness

No information available

Children witnessing IPV incident

Yes

IPV cases: whereabouts of children during incident (include relation to victim/defendant and age); safety of children (police and victim’s views); child protection proceedings -include whether referral was made to Children’s Services.

Incident

Code system used

  • Police

The Home Office Counting Rules (HOCR)

Description of incident

  • Date/time
  • Harm/injuries
  • Location
  • Type of violence
Other: 

In case of IPV bail history and any breach orders (including civil), previous domestic violence incidents (including against other victims), call outs/pre-convictions for defendant and victim/witnesses, DASH or local equivalent risk identification checklist with outcome (i.e. MARAC case, high risk, standard risk), any civil orders/proceedings and whether there has been previous breaches, any previous allegations (with urns) and how these allegations were concluded (if case did not proceed why not).

Protection order

No information available

Civil justice data

No information available

Incident respond resources

No information collected on Incident respond resources

Prosecution process

This administrative data source does not collect information on Prosecution process

Outcomes

This administrative data source does not collect information on Outcomes

Characteristics

Storage System

  • In paper form
  • Electronically (single files)
  • Electronically (database)
Other: 

UK-wide: Police National Computer (PNC), by National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA). London Metropolitan Police: Crime reporting Information System (CRIS).

Frequency of updating

Ongoing

Quality assurance process

No information available

Comparability

  • Geographical
  • Over time
  • None

Timeliness

No information available

Current developments

No information available

Relation with third parties

No information available

Reporter

  • Victim
  • Witness
  • Offender

Website

Link to website

Metadata

Organisation: 
Police
Sector:
Policija
Geographical area: 
Local
Geographical area remarks: 

Territorial. For example England and Wales is split up in 43 territorial police forces (plus the British Transport Police)