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Two kinds of correction exist here, with different routes.
If a record itself is wrong, it belongs to the police force that recorded it and to the team that publishes it through data.police.uk. We never show an identifier, a location or free text, so there is nothing on our pages to amend. Police forces correct and republish records, and the corrections log on data.police.uk carries those changes. A corrected record reaches our figures with the next accepted archive.
If our arithmetic is wrong, that is ours. A share that does not match its denominator, a count of between one and four left visible, a total that lets a withheld cell be worked out by subtraction, a twelve-month change built from windows that are not comparable, or a figure we cannot reproduce from the archives we kept: all of those are defects and we want them reported.
Tell us the area, the category and the window you were reading. We keep each accepted archive, so any published figure can be rebuilt exactly as it was.
When a published figure changes for a reason other than new source records, the change is listed on the updates page with its date and cause.
What you can open
Every figure on this page is tied to the accepted calculation.
What to do next
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.
Open the home page and pick an area.
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 Rates stay unpublished until an unrounded population estimate for the exact same area is accepted, so counts and composition are all that appear.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.