18 December 2020

The year to June 2020 data published on 28th October 2020 contained a supply error in the fraud and computer misuse offence figures recorded by Action Fraud. Computer misuse offences were not supplied for April and May 2020.

A correction has been made to the total number of police recorded crimes for the April to June 2020 period in Section 5 and the size of increases in total fraud and computer misuse offences recorded by Action Fraud or referred to the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau in Section 10. A correction has also been made to the total number of computer misuse offences and the size of increases in these offences in Section 11.

Figures 4, 5 and 6 have now been corrected following the revisions to figures in the following tables; Summary Table 1, A4, A5, A7, Current QT1 – PRC by Quarter, Monthly Table 1, Table F6, Figure F1a and Figure F1b.