Crimes Recorded

1. For the 08/09 financial year please could you provide me with the total number of crimes recorded in your area and (B) how many of these were "screened out".
2. Please provide a detailed breakdown - preferably a table of some sort - giving a breakdown of those crimes that were screened out.

In accordance with section 1 (1) (b) of the Act our response is provided below;

1a. 78,289 Recorded Crimes in 2008/09.

1b. Due to a system change in 2007 there is no longer a flag to identify "screened out crimes". Therefore to produce these statistics would require a manual sift of all crime reports from 2008/09 to establish whether any of the approximate 50000 undetected crimes were "screened out". It is estimated that this would exceed the appropriate limit. The appropriate limit is defined in the Data Protection and Freedom of Information (Fees and Appropriate Limit) Regulations 2004, which is covered by statutory Instrument Number 3244 of 2004. Furthermore, Section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 allows a public authority to refuse to respond to a request for information where the cost of compliance would exceed the appropriate limit as defined by the above mentioned regulations.