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Victimisation Snapshot

This report provides a quick overview of crime victimisations in your area. To protect the privacy of individuals for crime types other than burglary, victimisations occurring in dwellings are excluded from the data. Data including those victimisations are available in the Victimisations reports below.

It has two versions depending on your device:

Important: The following reports are best accessed using a desktop computer or laptop.

Detailed Reports

These statistics present a detailed picture of who is affected by crime in New Zealand, who is committing it, the relationship between offender and victim, and how offenders are being dealt with.

RCVS is about victims of crime, so only includes crimes that clearly have an identified victim. RCOS also includes crimes that do not have a clear victim, such as drug offences.

RCVS and RCOS were introduced in 2014-15. Updated RCVS and RCOS data are released at the end of every month to provide the most up-to-date information possible. They replace crime statistics previously released twice-yearly.

You can find out more about these statistics in the RCVS briefing (PDF, 314KB) and RCOS briefing (PDF, 253KB).

User manuals on RCVS (PDF, 390KB) and RCOS (PDF, 339KB) are also available.

Victimisations (RCVS)

Victimisations (police stations)

Similar to Victimisations (demographics) report, but with more detail about the location and type of crime, and less demographic detail about victims.
Victimisations (demographics)

Use this report to see how crime victimisation varies across time, place, crime-type and demographic attributes of victims.
Unique Victims (police stations)

Similar to Unique victims (demographics) report, but with more detail about the location and type of crime, and less demographic detail about victims.
Unique Victims (demographics)

Similar to the above report, but only counting each victim once, irrespective of how many times they were victimised during the last 12 months. Use this report to understand patterns in repeat-victimisation.
Victimisations Time and Place

Use this report to see more detail about where and when crimes occurred across New Zealand.

To protect the privacy of individuals for crime types other than burglary, victimisations occurring in dwellings are excluded from the data. Data including those victimisations are available in the Victimisations reports.

Proceedings (RCOS)

Proceedings (police stations)

Similar to Proceedings (offender demographics) report, but with more detail about the location and type of crime, and less demographic detail about offenders.
Proceedings (offender demographics)

Use this report to see patterns across time, place, crime-type, and demographic attributes of offenders Police dealt with.
Unique Offenders (police stations)

Similar to Unique offenders (demographics) report, but with more detail about the location and type of crime, and less demographic detail about offenders.
Unique Offenders (demographics)

Similar to the above report, but only counting each offender once, irrespective of how many times they were dealt with during the last 12 months. Use this report to understand patterns in repeat-offending.

Other Published Information

Demand and Activity

Reports volumes of crime and non-crime related demand for police services, as well as volumes of police proactive activities such preventative tasks or serving court orders.
Deportees from Australia

This report includes arrival and demographic information from January 2015 of all people deported from Australia to New Zealand, no matter the section of the Australian Migration Act they were removed under.

Archived

Covid-19 Response

Reports volumes of crime and non-crime related demand for police services, as well as volumes of police proactive activities such preventative tasks or serving court orders during Alert Levels 4, 3 and 2. The report also contains data on breaches during Alert Levels 4, 3, and 2 and the demographic attributes of those breaches.
Daily Occurrence of Crime and Family Violence

This report presents commonly requested non-personal statistical information about the daily occurrences of crime and family violence investigations in New Zealand.
The Policing of Drugs in New Zealand

This report provides data used to generate the publication: Policing of Drugs in New Zealand. The data included in the tableau report includes all Police actions involving the personal possession and use of controlled drugs, and the possession of utensils, both pre and post the Misuse of Drugs Act (MODA) Amendments in August 2019. All actions taken by Police were assessed, considering a person’s age, past offending history, and other offences committed at the same time.

About the reports

These reports provide access to Recorded Crime Victims Statistics (RCVS) and Recorded Crime Offenders Statistics (RCOS) and Demand and Activity data produced by New Zealand Police.

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Overview

On 30 November 2016 NZ Police launched policedata.nz to provide easy access to Police crime data through a number of interactive reports that can be accessed from this page. Data are updated in these reports on the last working day of every month.

On 31 October 2017 policedata.nz was enhanced by changing the technology to use HTML instead of Flash, thereby making the reports accessible to more devices.

Links to available reports are provided above. Police intends rolling out more reports over time.

These reports are designed to support partners and communities to access Police data to help inform their planning, decision-making and policy development. The reports may also be of interest to media, researchers and others.

The data sets behind the policedata.nz reports have been designed in consultation with Statistics NZ, who continues to work with Police, as it does with all government agencies who publish official statistics, to provide oversight and advice regarding the statistics they produce.

Police has also consulted with the office of the Privacy Commissioner to ensure privacy issues were properly considered and addressed. The reports above contain anonymised data. In accessing the data, you should not to attempt to re-identify individuals or speculate on the identity of individuals. Police reminds you of your obligations under the Privacy Act to protect the privacy of individuals.

For any questions about these reports please email.