DCLG DATA4NR: Police-Recorded Wounding Offences in the UK

DCLG DATA4NR provides data on wounding offences recorded by police in the UK. The dataset is published by the Home Office under the OGL-UK-3.0 license and was last updated on 2026-07-08. It covers notifiable offences where wounding did not endanger life.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in non-life-threatening violent crime based on police-recorded offence data.
• Model regional variations in wounding incidents based on the UK government source.
• Support public policy evaluation using official Home Office crime statistics.

Strengths

• Data originates from the authoritative Home Office organization.
• Has a specific update timestamp of 2026-07-08 13:30:55.970039.
• Released under the permissive OGL-UK-3.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset scale are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Home Office

Collection Method

Recorded by police forces as notifiable offences.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:30:55.970039; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom