Home Office Counting Rape

Within the Home Office Counting rules there are guidelines on when a recorded crime can be resolved as a 'no crime'

In the case of rape they are:
1. The crime was committed outside the jurisdiction of the police force in which it was recorded.
2. Where following the report of an incident which has subsequently been recorded as a crime, additional verifiable information is available which determines that no notifiable crime has been committed.
3. If the crime, as alleged, constitutes part of a crime already recorded.
4. If the reported incident was recorded as a crime in error.
Under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act please provide me with the following statistics for your force area for the calendar year of 2010.
1. How many rapes were recorded.
2. Of that number , how many were 'no crimed'
3. If possible within cost, break the total for question 2 down into the four categories as outlined above.

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

There were 212 Rapes reported in 2010, of which 32 were 'no crimed':

Of those 32 'no crimed':

31 were 'no crimed' due to "where following the report of an incident which has subsequently been recorded as a crime, additional verifiable information is available which determines that no notifiable crime has been committed" (category 2)

1 occurrence was 'no crimed' due to "the crime, as alleged, constitutes part of a crime already recorded" (category 3)