Crime and Disorder Related Data

There are a number of ways to access recorded crime information. Each police service maintains a comprehensive bank of recorded crime for the area. This is inerogated on a regular basis by the police accredited data anlysts - at various levels - but is not accessible to for non accredited research. The Home Office maintains several sites on the internet  where research and statistics on crime and disorder can be found. The key public site is at the Crime Reduction site  which contains links to the index of crime statistics for England and Wales. In addition the Home Office RDS is the  central repository of publicly accessible topical data and background information on crime and disorder research  and information on policing, justice, immigration, drugs and race equality R & D.  

iQuanta

iQuanta is an internet-based analysis tool developed by the Police Standards Unit to turn statistical data routinely collected by the Home Office into useful outputs for understanding and improving policing performance. 

Since its launch in 2003, iQuanta has grown to cover almost the whole range of indicators within the Policing Performance Assessment Framework and it will be integrated APACS (Assessment for Policing and Community Safety) - the new national performance framework - which is due to come into operation in April 2008. 

iQuanta provides both graphical and tabular summaries of performance trends. A number of different chart types are available, covering comparison against peer group, current performance relative to historic performance and trends in performance (projections; progress against targets).

Access to iQuanta is provided to police forces, police authorities and members of Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships (CDRPs).     

Public Health Observatories

There are twelve PHOs across the UK and Ireland, which form the Association of Public Health Observatories (APHO), a network that links to equivalent organisations in Europe. APHO has agreed a system of national lead roles with each PHO. The role of lead PHO is to:

• provide a single point of contact on the topic area.

• identify and signpost relevant work, undertaken by other PHOs.

• point people to other data sources, methods and expertise.

Below is a list of key lead areas for each PHO:

	North West Public Health Observatory	Alcohol	Search by Alcohol
	North West Public Health Observatory	Drugs	Search by Drugs
	North West Public Health Observatory	Violence	Search by Violence
	East Midlands Public Health Observatory	Teenage Pregnancy	Search by Teenage Pregnancy
	London Health Observatory	Health Inequalities	Search by Health Inequalities
	London Health Observatory	Black and Ethnic Minorities	Search by Black and Ethnic Minorities
	North East Public Health Observatory	Prisons	Search by Prisons
	North East Public Health Observatory	Mental Health	Search by Mental Health
	North East Public Health Observatory	Europe and International	Search by Europe and International

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