Crime: Justice Mr. Garnier To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many and what proportion of offences committed in each of the last 12 years were classified as offences brought to justice within 18 months of the offence being committed. Claire Ward The number of recorded crimes and offences brought to justice (OBTJ) for the period year ending March 1999 to year ending December 2008 (latest available) are given in Table 1. It is not possible to directly compare recorded crimes and offences brought to justice. Crimes and offences brought to justice are not measured in the same way. The Home Office Counting Rules for Recorded Crime provide a framework for the consistent recording of crimes by police forces based on reports from victims and witnesses, whereas offences brought to justice are a count of the convictions, cautions, penalty notices for disorder and cannabis warnings given to individuals for separate offences in law, or the number of separate offences taken into consideration. As such, it is not possible for published statistics to directly link individual recorded crimes to the offences for which the offender is subsequently brought to justice. In addition, there is an inevitable time lag between a crime being committed and the offence being brought to justice at court, so the level of recorded crime in a particular period is not directly comparable to the number of offences brought to justice in the same period. However, in the vast majority of cases offences will be brought to justice within 18 months of the crime being recorded. 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|12 months ending |Number of crimes recorded by the police|Total offencesbrought to justice| 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|March 1999 |5,109|1,103| 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|June 1999 |5,195|1,096| 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|September 1999 |5,234|1,086| 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|December 1999 |5,261|1,085| 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|March 2000 |5,301|1,084| 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|June 2000 |5,262|1,071| 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|September 2000 |5,218|1,046| 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|December 2000 |5,195|1,013| 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|March 2001 |5,162|996| 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|June 2001 |5,209|989| 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|September 2001 |5,298|989| 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|December 2001 |5,422|1,001| 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|March 2002 |5,525|1,002| 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|June 2002 |5,670|1,010| 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|September 2002 |5,787|1,025| 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|December 2002 |5,844|1,031| 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|March 2003 |5,898|1,038| 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|June 2003 |5,910|1,044| 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|September 2003 |5,932|1,051| 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|December 2003 |5,932|1,060| 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|March 2004 |5,935|1,077| 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|June 2004 |5,850|1,087| 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|September 2004 |5,750|1,097| 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|December 2004 |5,679|1,125| 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|March 2005 |5,560|1,138| 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|June 2005 |5,523|1,187| 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|September 2005 |5,507|1,235| 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|December 2005 |5,504|1,277| 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|March 2006 |5,479|1,327| 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|June 2006 |5,452|1,356| 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|September 2006 |5,414|1,386| 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|December 2006 |5,387|1,409| 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|March 2007 |5,351|1,423| 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|June 2007 |5,255|1,444| 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|September 2007 |5,139|1,454| 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|December 2007 |4,982|1,456| 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|March 2008 |4,951|51,446| 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|June 2008 |4,869|51,430| 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|September 2008 |4,838|51,406| 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|December 2008 |4,789|51,386| 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|1 Police recorded crime statistics based on data from all 43 forces in England and Wales excludes British Transport for the period before year ending March 20082 Includes British Transport police from period year ending March 2008.3 The introduction of the National Crime Recording Standards (NCRS) in April 2002 resulted in significant increases in the number of crimes recorded.4 Excludes British Transport police5 The numbers of offences brought to justice (OBTJ) for 2008 are un-validated data from the courts and police, therefore provided as management information as they are provisional and likely to change.Note:Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.||| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------