Notifiable offence


A notifiable offence is any offence under United Kingdom law where the police must inform the Home Office, who use the report to compile crime statistics. The term Notifiable Offence is sometimes confused with recordable offence.
The consistency, reliability and rate at which police forces in the United Kingdom have reported offences has been subject to a long and on-going history of Crime statistics in [the United Kingdom|changes an improvements].

Reporting notifiable offences

There are strict rules regarding the recording of crime which is outlined in the National [Crime Recording Standards in England and Wales|National Crime Recording Standards] and the Home Office Crime Counting Rules. An incident will be recorded as a crime ;
For offences against an identifiable victim if, on the balance of probability;
  1. The circumstances as reported amount to a crime defined by law the points to prove to evidence the offence must clearly be made out, before a crime is recorded. An offence is regarded as being "against the state" where there is no specific identifiable victim, an example being dangerous driving.
The following offences are generally categorised as notifiable offences;