Catalogue description Crime Statistics System (ME): Financial Year 1994-1995 dataset

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Details of MEPO 36/7
Reference: MEPO 36/7
Title: Crime Statistics System (ME): Financial Year 1994-1995 dataset
Description: This dataset contains records which were added to the Metropolitan Police's Crime Statistics System between April 1994 and March 1995. The dataset has the same file format as its immediate successor and the dataset which corresponds to the final form of the ME database, reflecting changes to the ME System which are believed to have been made to facilitate the phasing-in of CRIS at a time when the ME and CRIS systems were running simultaneously. Perhaps the most fundamental change is that records of"No Crimes" ("allegations where the evidence is insufficient to establish that a crime has been committed") are held in the same file (YTDEXTRACT9495) as records of offences, arrests, clear-ups and crime victims. Although this dataset contains data which was added to the system between April 1994 and March 1995 (based on the values recorded in the INPUT-YEAR and INPUT-MONTH fields), many records relate to offences which were originally reported at a much earlier date: the earliest entries in the REPORTED-YEAR field date from 1980 (these apparently relate to clear-ups and arrests which were input in 1994). Equally, there are a small number of records (72) with values in the REPORTED-YEAR and REPORTED-MONTH fields which are later than March 1995 (the latest entry is May 1995), even though the values in INPUT-YEAR and INPUT-MONTH suggest that these records were input in the period up to March 1995. The dataset consists of one table: YTDEXTRACT9495, containing details of offences, arrests, clear-ups, victims of crime and"no crimes".
Date: 1994-1995
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in The National Archives: CRDA/1/DS/2/1
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Access conditions: Open on Transfer

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