Notifiable offence

A notifiable offence is any offence under United Kingdom law where the police must inform the Home Office, who use the report to compile crime statistics. The term Notifiable Offence is sometimes confused with recordable offence.

The consistency, reliability and rate at which police forces in the United Kingdom have reported offences has been subject to a long and on-going history of changes an improvements.

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