Crimes Closed Within 48 Hours

Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FOI/25/007737/D

 Version Date: 05/03/2025

The Performance & Analysis Department have provided the following information.

Data Source            

Crimes recorded on crime information system – NICHE

Data Processing:              

Qliksense Crimes & Outcomes Report               

Include No-Crimes: No                  

Notifiable Crime Only: Yes            

Filtered on Reported Date: 01/01/2024 -31/12/2024                

All outcomes except investigation ongoing.                   

Retained all crimes where the difference between the reported date and the outcome date is 2 days or less           

Caveats/Limitations                                              

No crimes/Cancelled Crimes excluded.                          

Outcome time is not recorded so it is not possible to calculate exactly 48 hours (a date difference of 2 days or less between reported date and outcome date has been used).

‘Closed ' has been defined as all crimes that have an outcome other than 'investigation ongoing'                                               

In 2024, please could you tell me:

1) How many investigations into all crimes carried out by your force were closed within 48 hours of the crime being logged/reported?

25,050.

2) Could you categorise the number provided in Question 1 by offence type?