Data Sources Used in the First Round of Audits
‘A Review of Audits and Strategies produced by Crime and Disorder Partnerships
in 1999’ Home Office Briefing note 8/00 Nov 2000 http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/prgpubs/brfn0800.pdf
showed that of the 259 (69%) audits surveyed:
The average number of data sources used per partnership was 14.
Most partnerships (91%) used more than six data sources.
Over one third included over 16 different sources of data.
Data from statutory consultees was often not included within the audits.
The sources of date and percentage used in the audits are shown below
Type of data
|
Percent
|
Number of audits
|
Police
|
Recorded/ reported crime
|
100 |
259 |
Calls for service (incident data)*
|
80 |
208 |
Detections / arrests
|
52 |
134 |
Racist incidents
|
51 |
133 |
Local authority
|
Exclusions
|
52 |
135 |
Truancy
|
38 |
99 |
Noise complaints
|
39 |
100 |
Anti-social behaviour complaints
|
27 |
70 |
Social services: offender data
|
27 |
69 |
Other statutory agencies
|
Probation: offender data
|
64 |
166 |
Health services: drug treatment
|
27 |
71 |
Fire service: arson
|
37 |
95 |
Fire service: hoax calls
|
38 |
91 |
Voluntary/ community organisations
|
Domestic violence data
|
31 |
80 |
Other data
|
Attitudes to crime surveys
|
54 |
141 |
Fear of crime survey questions
|
48 |
124 |
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specific data sources.
Click here for a checklist of the data sources
used in the audits
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