Updated guidance: Home Office Crime Recording Rules for frontline officers & staff

These rules help to ensure that crimes are recorded consistently and accurately.

From:

Home Office

Published

4 July 2013

Last updated

26 July 2023 — See all updates

Crime Recording Rules for frontline officers and staff

PDF, 843 KB, 61 pages

Crime Recording Schools Protocol

PDF, 138 KB, 2 pages

Counting Rules for Fraud

PDF, 1.17 MB, 148 pages

Counting rules notifiable offences and notifiable reported incidents 2023 to 2024

ODS, 147 KB

The Home Office Crime Recording Rules for frontline officers and staff provide a national standard for the recording and counting of ‘notifiable’ offences recorded by police forces in England and Wales (known as ‘recorded crime’).

Linked documents

The national standard for incident recording (NSIR) counting rules

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