BREAKING: Proportion of crimes which led to suspect being cautioned/charged has fallen to new low - 7.3% - according to new @ukhomeoffice data. Separate police figures show knife crime up again, by 7%, robberies up 12%, car crime up 4%. Figures for Eng/Wales, year to Sept 2019
@ukhomeoffice Proportion of crimes leading to prosecution in Eng/Wales has been on continuous decline since 2015, when data first compiled this way. Then, 15.5% of offences led to suspect being charged/summonsed. In year to Sept 2019, it was 7.3%, which is about one in 14 cases.
@ukhomeoffice In addition, 1.4% of crimes led to a caution, 2.3% resulted in an informal warning and 0.1% were "taken into consideration". Just 1.4% of recorded rape offences led to a charge, 5.4% of thefts and 7.2% of robberies.
@ukhomeoffice Over past five years there's been a big rise in cases where the victim does not support criminal proceedings, from 8.7% to 22.9%. In 43.4% of cases no suspect can be identified.
The data exclude Greater Manchester Police because of crime recording problems.
The data exclude Greater Manchester Police because of crime recording problems.
