The Home Office Crime Recording Rules for frontline officers and staff provide a national standard for the recording and counting of notifiable offences recorded by police forces in England and Wales (known as recorded crime).
Crime recording rules for frontline officers and staff has been updated to include new guidance on online safety act offences, and information on crime flags has been added.
The notifiable offences list has been updated.
Crime Recording Rules for Frontline Officers and Staff, page 49; definition of exposure has been clarified.
'Crime Recording Rules for frontline officers and staff' and 'Notifiable offences and notifiable reported incidents' have been updated.
List of notifiable offences, and principal crime look-up table, have been amended to show the maximum sentence for 'pursuing a course of conduct in breach of S1 (1) which amounts to stalking' as 6 months.
The notifiable offence list has been updated to add some new offences.
The Crime Recording Rules for frontline officers and staff have been updated with further guidance and clarification.
Crime Recording Rules for frontline officers and staff, and Crime Recording Schools Protocol, have been added to the page.
The spreadsheet 'Counting rules notifiable offences and notifiable reported incidents 2023 to 2024' has been updated; there have been some additions and one offence removed following the Home Office Counting Rules review.
The Home Office Counting Rules are currently under review and a summarised version of the rules will be posted as soon as they are finalised.
General Rules Section G - Location of Crimes has been expanded
Some amendments to the April 2022 Counting Rules were made in July 2022. These are highlighted in yellow in the main document. There is also a separate document listing the updates; and the Counting Rules notifiable offence list has been updated.
Home Office Counting Rules 2022/2023, and Summary of Changes, April 2022 Update
Updated Counting rules for public order offences', 'Counting rules for miscellaneous crimes against society'.
Updated 'Counting rules for recorded crime update June 2021, Counting rules for drug offences', 'Crime recording general rules, 'Counting rules for violence against the person' and 'Counting rules for reported incidents.
Updated 'Counting rules for violence against the person', 'Counting rules for fraud'.
Updated 'Counting rules for recorded crime update April 2021, 'Crime recording general rules, 'Offence classification index, Counting rules for sexual offences', 'Counting rules for robbery', 'Counting rules for burglary', 'Counting rules for violence against the person', 'Counting rules for theft', 'Counting rules vehicle offences', Counting rules for arson and criminal damage', 'Counting rules for drug offences', Counting rules for possession of weapons', Counting rules for public order offences', 'Counting rules for miscellaneous crimes against society', 'Counting rules for fraud', 'Counting rules for reported incidents, Counting rules notifiable offences and notifiable reported incidents list 2021 to 2022, and 'Counting Rules Crime Flags'.
Updated 'Counting rules for recorded crime update October November 2020', 'Crime recording general rules' and 'Counting rules for miscellaneous crimes against society'.
Updated 'Counting rules for violence against the person'.
