DCLG Data4NR: Police-Recorded Offences for Interfering with a Motor Vehicle

Notifiable offences recorded by the police for interfering with a motor vehicle in the UK. The dataset is published by the Home Office under the OGL-UK-3.0 license. Its last update was recorded as 2026-07-08 13:33:13.677599.

Use Cases

• Analyze temporal trends in vehicle interference offences based on police records.
• Model geographic patterns of vehicle crime based on the recorded offence data.
• Assess the impact of crime prevention policies on rates of interfering with a motor vehicle.

Strengths

• Data originates from the authoritative Home Office organization.
• Published under the permissive OGL-UK-3.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Row count and column definitions are unknown, limiting suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Home Office

Collection Method

Police-recorded notifiable offences.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:13.677599; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom (inferred from platform and organization)