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<p>Police forces in England and Wales are required to send proscribed data to the
Home Office under the Annual Data Requirement (ADR). Under the ADR, police forces
are already required to provide data on sex and age of victim to the Home Office.
Furthermore, information on the relationship between victim and suspect data are collected
for violence against the person and sexual offences. There are plans to make reporting
of repeat victimisation in domestic abuse offences mandatory in the next reporting
year (i.e. from April 2018). Perpetrator data is not routinely collected by the Home
Office but may be supplied to the Home Office if a suspect has been identified, but
this is not mandatory. The Ministry of Justice are responsible for data on offenders.</p><p>The
Office for National Statistics published experimental statistics on victims of violent
offences in February 2017. This covers age, sex and victim-suspect relationship. The
report is available here:</p><p><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/compendium/focusonviolentcrimeandsexualoffences/yearendingmarch2016/experimentalstatisticsvictimsofpolicerecordedviolentandsexualoffences"
target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/compendium/focusonviolentcrimeandsexualoffences/yearendingmarch2016/experimentalstatisticsvictimsofpolicerecordedviolentandsexualoffences</a></p><p>The
analysis in the report uses data for a subset of forces so may not be representative
of all forces in England and Wales and data were not reconciled with forces and are
therefore subject to revision. They can only provide details for crimes at the offence
group level and cannot be applied to separate collections such as knife crime data
published by The Home Office. The Home Office continue to work with police forces
to ensure the consistency and comparability of the victim information they supply.</p>
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