Police Recorded Crime

Official statistics for number of offences as recorded by police, from official statistics produced by the Office for National Statistics.

police_recorded_crime

Format

A data frame of 3546 observations and 6 variables:

offence_group: The offence category as presented in the PRC statistics.
offence_subgroup: The offence subcategory as presented in the PRC statistics.
offence_code: The offence code as given by the police.
offence: The offence name as given by the police.
year_ending: The period for the number of offences. Although the dates refer to the 1st of the month in reality we always go to the end of the same month.
number_offences: The number of offences for the given offence in the period given.