Concealing, arrangement and aqcuisition crimes

Request

1. How many of the following offences were recorded between January 2020 and January 2025:
   a. Concealing etc criminal property. Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, section 327.
   b.         Being involved in an arrangement that facilitates another person's use of criminal property. Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, section 328.
   c.         Acquisition, use and possession. Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, section 329.
   2.         For each of these three recorded offences, can you confirm the number of charges made.
   3.         In how many instances of the listed offences above between January 2020 and January 2025, was the individual concerned recorded as under 18 and separately how many were recorded as under 30.
   4.         If held, could you please provide the age, gender and/or demographic of the individual concerned

Response

I approached our Performance Review Unit for assistance with your request. An analyst within this unit has conducted a search of our Crime Management System - Connect which records complaints or allegations of those matters, which the Home Office specify should be recorded as 'crimes'. All our systems are designed and used first and foremost for Policing Purposes and have limited search capability. They provided me with the below in response and the following explanation regarding their search criteria:

Criteria Used – Incident Created Date is between 01/01/2020 and 31/01/2025, SYP & crime only filter, is equal to Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 Sec 327, Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 Sec 328, Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 Sec 329, Person Role is equal to SUSPECT, SUSPECT (INSUFFICIENT TO PROCEED), SUSPECT (INTERVIEWED), SUSPECT (NO ACTION) EVIDENTIAL DIFF., SUSPECT (NO ACTION) TIME LIMIT EXPIRED, SUSPECT (NOT INTERVIEWED), SUSPECT (PROSECUTION PREVENTED), SUSPECT PRE ATHENA

• The suspect demographic data provided has been extracted from the crime recording system and cleansed using what we believe is the most efficient method in order to provide the most accurate data possible and minimise data quality issues.

Despite our best efforts, as with any large-scale recording system, the data is subject to potential errors from data entry and processing.

We are committed to improving the quality of our data and internal testing has shown that data quality issues are likely to be minimal, as such we are able to provide the data along with this caveat.

Internal testing has shown that using the outcome of the investigation to be the most accurate way of reporting and presenting this data. This aligns to the data that is reported to the Home Office for purposes of national comparison.

Whilst the demographic data provided is linked to a particular suspect, the outcome data is linked to the investigation therefore we can expect that the number of outcomes will differ to the number of suspect details provided.

• This data is only where the offence type is recorded in the said Home Office Offence Classes and this may not include details of any other offences that have been recorded in accordance with the Home Office Counting Rules – General Rules - The Principal Crime Rule (1 of 1) - IF THE SEQUENCE OF CRIMES IN AN INCIDENT, OR A COMPLEX CRIME, CONTAINS MORE THAN ONE TYPE OF CRIME, THEN COUNT THE MOST SERIOUS

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Please note, every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that data has been extracted from data sources used by this force for police purposes. The detail collected to respond specifically to your request is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording systems and information assets.

The figures provided therefore are our best interpretation of relevance of data to your request, but you should be aware that the collation of figures/data for any requests may have limitations, and this should be taken into account when those data sets are used.

Police forces do not use generic systems or identical procedures for capturing the data. For these reasons this response to your questions should not be used for comparison purposes with responses you may receive from other police forces.