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Catalogue description Crime Statistics System (ME): Financial Year 1995-1997 dataset
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| Reference: | MEPO 36/8 |
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| Title: | Crime Statistics System (ME): Financial Year 1995-1997 dataset |
| Description: | This dataset covers two financial years, 1995-1996 and 1996-1997. It contains records which were added to the Metropolitan Police's Crime Statistics System between April 1995 and March 1997. The dataset has the same file format as its immediate predecessor and the dataset which corresponds to the ME database at the end of its operational life, reflecting changes to the ME System which are believed to have been made to facilitate the phasing-in of the Crime Report Information System (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 (YTDEXTRACT9596) as records of offences, arrests, clear-ups and crime victims. Although this dataset contains data which was added to the system between April 1995 and March 1997 (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 1979 (these relate to arrests which were made in 1995). The fact that the dataset runs into 1997 indicates that the ME System continued to be used for a brief period after the CRIS System became fully operational in October 1996. The dataset consists of one table: YTDEXTRACT9596, containing details of offences, arrests, clear-ups, victims of crime and"no crimes". |
| Date: | 1995-1997 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in The National Archives: | CRDA/1/DS/2/2 |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Closure status: | Open Document, Open Description |
| Access conditions: | Open on Transfer |
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