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At least one force month arrived without a results file. Those results are unavailable, not zero.
No independent published total exists for these street-level records, so our completeness checks are internal. Home Office totals and the national crime survey count different things and are not used as a check.
Each crime identifier is counted once in September 2025 to August 2026. Republished identifiers: 22,189 which is 0.4% of the window. Above 2 percent, the build stops for review. At least one force month arrived without a results file. Those results are unavailable, not zero.
Each crime identifier is counted once in September 2025 to August 2026. Republished identifiers: 22,189 which is 0.4% of the window. Above 2 percent, the build stops for review. At least one force month arrived without a results file. Those results are unavailable, not zero.
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The two sides of this comparison are not the same universe, so no difference is published. Totals from the Home Office and from the national crime survey cover different things from these published street-level records and are never subtracted from them. Case results published by police and by the courts also stay separate, and results are never ranked across forces.
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Limits of these figures
It does not tell you about a street or an address. Published points are moved to a shared location covering at least eight addresses, and this page describes an area.
It does not count everything that happened. These are the records forces recorded and published; for many types of crime, police recorded crime statistics do not provide a reliable measure of levels or trends in crime.
It does not describe Scotland. Only the British Transport Police supply records there, so levels would look far lower than they are, and no Scottish total is published here.
It does not give a figure per resident. Rates stay unpublished until an unrounded population estimate for the exact same area is accepted, so counts and composition are all that appear.
It does not rank forces on results. Published matching of case results ranges from about 19 to 97 percent between forces, which makes a league table of results meaningless.
Source
Street-level crime and outcomes, September 2025 to August 2026. Home Office totals and the national crime survey count different things from these published street-level records, so they are not used as a check.