SIX TIMES INSPECTORS FOUND NO CRIME RECORD

“A sexual assault in which one child kissed another on the lips. Both were under ten, which is the age of criminal responsibility. A log was created and all partner agencies were informed for safeguarding purposes but the officer did not deem it appropriate to create a crime record as there would be no further action and they thought it wouldn’t be in the best interests of the children

“A person reported an incident where the circumstances were recorded as a sexual assault when it should have been recorded as an attempted rape according to Home Office Counting Rules. Irrespective of this a full investigation took place and safeguarding was put in place as appropriate.

“A victim told another emergency service that during an assault they may have been raped. When officers attended the incident and interviewed the person no complaint of a rape was made. All the relevant physical assault crimes were recorded but the rape was not.

“The constabulary recorded a crime of harassment but as part of the victim’s allegations there was also a crime of malicious communications that an officer logged details of but mistakenly did not record as a crime. All relevant material, including details of the malicious communications, was still passed to the CPS, who could have decided to charge for the offence irrespective of it not being recorded as a crime. The constabulary has now created a crime record for the malicious communications offence.

“A person called us to report a family member had severe dementia and was lashing out. They did not wish to pursue criminal charges and the officer made an assessment that it was a medical issue rather than a criminal one. Safeguarding and appropriate care was put in place but under Home Office Crime Recording Rules it should have been recorded as a domestic assault.

“A person alleged multiple people sexually assaulted them during an incident but did not know exactly how many. The officer mistakenly recorded all details of the incident in one crime record, rather than multiple crime records.”