MPS Monthly Crime Dashboard Data

The data used in the MPS Crime Dashboard is available here MPS Crime Dashboard | Metropolitan Police, along with the related data definitions. Please note that datasets are updated monthly on the 6th of the month. Data runs until the end of the month prior.

***June 2024: The MPS monthly crime data-sets are now being extracted and compiled from the new CONNECT system within the MPS; these data-sets will have prefix M1045 added to the file name.***

The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has introduced CONNECT, a new crime recording system that consolidates several previous systems into one integrated platform. This change aims to streamline processes and enhance efficiency across the board.

 With the implementation of CONNECT, there have been slight modifications in the recording of specific crime categories, such as hate crime and knife crime. These adjustments may result in minor variations in crime data when compared to the pre-CONNECT era. To provide a comprehensive view of the data, the MPS has regenerated the full report to cover the entire time period.

BCU and Borough data in CONNECT are determined by the geographic location of the incident, rather than the borough managing the case, as was the case with legacy systems. This new approach has been retroactively applied to legacy data to provide consistent and comparable analysis.

Total Notifiable Offence (TNO) data follows the Home Office counting rules for recorded crime (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/counting-rules-for-recorded-crime ). NB This data-set includes “Other Accepted Crime”, which are non-notifiable crimes and must be excluded if calculating a TNO total.

The “Other Crime” offence data follows the Home Office counting rules but have been grouped by specific features (e.g. Knife Crime): please see dashboard for definitions.

Measures include Offences, Sanction Detections, and the Sanction Detection Rate (total number of sanction detections divided by the total number of offences in a given period).

All data is broken down by financial year for each crime type, and can be filtered by Basic Command Unit (BCU) and Borough. NB: The Borough shown is the ‘investigating’ Borough not necessarily the Borough where the offence occurred.