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Catalogue description Crime Statistics System (ME): Final Database (1992-1997) dataset
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| Reference: | MEPO 36/9 |
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| Title: | Crime Statistics System (ME): Final Database (1992-1997) dataset |
| Description: | This dataset comprises an extract file, DBEXTRACT, which is thought to represent all of the data in the Metropolitan Police's Crime Statistics System at the time when the database was taken out of service, apparently in 1997. It consists of data which was input to the system between 1992 and 1997. It has the same file format as its two immediate predecessors, the dataset covering the 1994-1995 financial year , and that covering the 1995-1996 and 1996-1997 financial year. In other words, it reflects the 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. Although this dataset contains data which was added to the Crime Statistics System between February 1992 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 1950. 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. It can be assumed that most of the data will be duplicated in the other Crime Statistics System datasets, which represent exports made from the system at periodic intervals (usually annually) between 1990 and 1997. The dataset consists of one table, DBEXTRACT, containing details of offences, arrests, clear-ups, victims of crime and"no crimes". Because of the exceptionally large size of this table (1.04 GB), users are advised that searches and downloads may take substantially longer than usual. |
| Date: | 1992-1997 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in The National Archives: | CRDA/1/DS/3/1 |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Closure status: | Open Document, Open Description |
| Access conditions: | Open on Transfer |
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