To reduce crime case, will this help?

The launch of data.police.uk

Earlier this year, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) announced changes to the way in which they will present police recorded crime data.  You can find further information here: http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/about-ons/user-engagement/consultations-and-surveys/future-dissemination-strategy-for-the-publication-of-national-statistics-on-crime-in-england-and-wales/index.html 

For police.uk, this means:
1.  Violent crime will be renamed to “Violence and sexual offences”  (there will be no changes to the crimes within this category, but we’ll be renaming it to make clearer where sexual offences are categorised)
2. There will be a new category for “Bicycle Theft” (the “theft or unauthorised taking of a pedal cycle” crimes) which currently sits within “other theft”
3. There will be a new category for “Theft from the person” (the “theft from the person” crimes) which currently sits within “other theft”
4. Both “other firearms offences” and “other knives offences” which are in ‘other crime’ will move into “Public disorder and weapons”.  We’ll then also be splitting these into two new categories; “Public order” and “Possession of Weapons”
This won’t be creating work for forces – as we’ve switched to a process of allocating crimes into the public-facing police.uk categories centrally, based on the Home Office Offence Codes that forces include in the street-level upload each month. We’re currently finalising some testing, and the new categories will go live at the end of June, with data from the May upload (to confirm, nothing has happened as of yet - and there are no changes taking place this month). There will be new categories available in the API, and street-level CSVs.