FOI 548/25 Crime Outcomes
Date: 11/06/25
Enquiry Reference: 548- 25
I write in connection with regards to your Freedom of Information request. Below is your request and our response.
- For 1 Apr 2024 to 31 March 2025, please could you provide a breakdown of the number of crime outcomes for your police force split by whether the suspect was an adult, child (under 18), or unknown. Please use the outcome groups from the Home Office police outcomes statistics, which are listed below.
Answer
Please note that this is a count of crimes and therefore if there is more than one suspect then the crime will only be counted once. If there is an adult and child suspect, then it will be counted in the adult column. If there is no suspect recorded, then it’s counted under unknown.
Some crimes have a suspect recorded but have been closed as no suspect identified. This is due to data quality issues with not recording the person as eliminated for example or them being named only with no evidence.
|
Outcome group |
Adults |
Children |
Unknown |
|
Out-of-court (formal) - i.e. cautions and penalty notices for disorder [outcomes 2,3,6,7] |
132 |
31 |
2 |
|
Out-of-court (informal) - i.e. community resolutions [outcome 8] |
335 |
75 |
5 |
|
Diversionary, educational or intervention activity, resulting from the crime report, has been undertaken and it is not in the public interest to take any further action. [outcome 22] |
439 |
274 |
84 |
|
Charged/Summonsed [outcome 1] |
7480 |
306 |
7 |
|
Evidential difficulties (suspect identified; victim supports action) [outcome 15s – CPS & police] |
8532 |
1157 |
441 |
|
Evidential difficulties (victim does not support action) [outcome 16] |
13680 |
2726 |
573 |
|
Prosecution prevented or not in the public interest [outcomes 5, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 17] |
825 |
219 |
47 |
|
Further investigation to support formal action not in the public interest – police decision [outcome 21] |
19 |
161 |
233 |
|
Responsibility for further investigation transferred to another body [outcome 20] |
411 |
126 |
58 |
|
Taken into consideration [outcome 4] |
7 |
0 |
0 |
|
Investigation complete – no suspect identified [outcomes 14, 18] |
361 |
92 |
30987 |
|
Not yet assigned an outcome |
1813 |
323 |
398 |
- Please also provide figures on how many children (age 17 and under) were remanded (charged and detained for court) by your police force in the 12 months to y/e March 2025, broken down by ethnicity and offence type.
Answer
Children where the first disposal from custody was charge and detain for court. Ethnic group is self-defined. Child may have been arrested for more than one crime and the table shows the type of the one recorded as the primary reason.
|
Asian |
Other Minority ethnicity |
White |
Not Stated |
Total children |
|
|
Burglary - Business and Community |
1 |
1 |
2 |
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Burglary - Residential |
1 |
1 |
|||
|
Criminal Damage/Arson |
1 |
1 |
|||
|
Homicide |
3 |
3 |
|||
|
Other non-notifiable |
10 |
10 |
|||
|
Possession of weapons |
1 |
1 |
|||
|
Possession/use of drugs |
1 |
1 |
|||
|
Public order offences |
3 |
3 |
|||
|
Robbery |
2 |
2 |
|||
|
Shoplifting |
1 |
1 |
2 |
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Trafficking of drugs |
3 |
3 |
|||
|
Veh crime inc interference |
1 |
1 |
|||
|
Violence with injury |
6 |
6 |
|||
|
Violence without injury |
1 |
1 |
|||
|
Total charged and detained to court |
1 |
1 |
34 |
1 |
37 |
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Yours sincerely
Information Rights Decision Maker