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What is a Crime ?

In the UK, a crime is defined as any act or omission that is prohibited by law and is punishable by the state through fines, imprisonment, or other penalties.. Crimes can range from minor offences, such as motoring/traffic offences or petty theft, to serious crimes, such as assault, murder, or drug trafficking.

What is a Criminal ?

Under UK law, a criminal is defined as a person who has committed a criminal offence. The specific offenses that are considered criminal under UK law are defined by various statutes, including the Theft Act 1968, the Fraud Act 2006, and the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, among others.

What are Crime Statistics ?

Crime statistics in the UK refer to the collection and analysis of data on crime rates, patterns, and trends across the country. These statistics are usually compiled by government agencies, such as the Office for National Statistics (ONS), and are used to inform policies and strategies for reducing crime and ensuring public safety.

The ONS are the UK’s largest independent producer of official statistics and its recognised national statistical institute. They e are responsible for collecting and publishing statistics related to the economy, population and society at national, regional and local levels. They also conduct the census in England and Wales every 10 years.

Some commonly reported crime statistics in the UK include the overall number of crimes recorded, the number of specific types of crimes (such as violent crime or burglary), and the crime rate per capita.

These statistics may also include information on the demographics of offenders and victims, as well as the locations and times of reported crimes.

Where can I find Crime Stats online ?

There are multiple crime stat resources available and these are a selection of the most popular :-

You can check crime in your area at Police.uk

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) also publish crime data

Crime in England and Wales: year ending March 2024 is the latest report

Crime in England and Wales: Police Force Area data tables are published in excel format

“The number of police recorded crimes, percentage change from previous year and rate per 1,000 population by offence group, firearms, knife and sharp instrument, fraud and anti-social behaviour offences by Police Force Area.”

ukcrimestats who say they are the leading crime and postcode data research and analysis platform, also publish crime data that can be searched in a variety of ways :-

By Postcode Area

By Neighbourhood

The Metropolitan Police (Met Police) publish Stats and Data on their website.

Sussex Police publish Sussex Crime Stats which is searchable by neighbourhood.

ADT security provide an interactive crime map

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Baroness Casey of Blackstock DBE CB has completed and published today (31st March 2023) her report The Baroness Casey Review into the standards of behaviour and internal culture of the Metropolitan Police Service (Met Police).

You can read the reports into the Metropolitan Police Service here :-

Baroness Casey Review Final Report: March 2023 (PDF, 2642KB)

Baroness Casey’s Report on Misconduct: October 2022 (PDF, 596KB)

Metropolitan PEEL Assessment 2023–2025

The Metropolitan Police remains along with two other forces also in special measures. Devon and Cornwall Police and Nottinghamshire Police.

For the latest Met Police news please see out Police News pages.

Call 999 if:

  • a serious offence is in progress or has just been committed
  • someone is in immediate danger or harm
  • property is in danger of being damaged
  • a serious disruption to the public is likely

Call 101 for non-emergency enquiries. You can also Report a Crime Online

Racism, Misogyny and Homophobia with ‘Rot’ at its Heart

In 1829 Sir Robert Peel established the Metropolitan Police in London, the first professional centrally organised police force.

194 years later the Met Police reputation is in ruins. The Metropolitan Police can only be described as an utter disgrace, embarrassment to the world and totally unfit for purpose.

Policing by consent indicates that the legitimacy of policing in the eyes of the public is based upon a consensus of support that follows from transparency about their powers, their integrity in exercising those powers and their accountability for doing so

The Casey report states that the Met Police ranks are riven with racism, misogyny and homophobia with ‘rot’ at its heart.

  • Alleged rapists went free after fridges broke down, destroying all the evidence inside meaning all the cases had to be dropped. Some fridges were so full it took three officers to shut them and one was also being used to store lunch alongside forensic samples;
  • A Muslim officer had bacon put in his shoes by a colleague, a Sikh officer had his beard trimmed and another officer had his turban put into a shoe box because officers ‘thought it was funny’. In one instance a black guard was referred to as a ‘gate monkey’ by colleagues;
  • Female officers were targeted by men for sex. Some felt pressure to sleep with colleagues to be popular. One officer was even allegedly sexually assaulted in a shower. One woman said a senior officer masturbated in front of her in the communal changing room.
  • ‘Pranks’ included bags of urine being thrown at cars, sex toys slipped into coffee mugs, male officers flicking each other’s genitals and an animal being trapped in an officer’s locker. There is widespread bullying at the Yard, with a fifth of staff being victimised;
  • Homophobia is rife. One gay officer said colleague spread false rumours that he had slept with senior officers to get ahead and made up claims he was taking drugs. Colleagues were accused of making malicious complaints about gay people and even considering using stop and search to target them. One said: ‘I am scared of the police. I don’t trust my own organisation’;
  • The parliamentary and diplomatic protection unit where Couzens and Carrick worked is described as a ‘dark corner’ of the Met known as ‘overtime command’. Officers often join to pay for weddings and top up their pensions.  he review found that officers ‘game the system’ to cash in on overtime and other bonuses, wasting public money on unnecessary overseas training trips and hotel rooms.
  • In the ‘boys’ club’, senior armed officers have competitions to see if they can make female colleagues cry and put up posters in common areas showing female firearms officers carrying mops, irons and kettles instead of weapons. One officer said: ‘It’s the most toxic, racist, sexist place I’ve ever worked – it’s just an unbelievable place.’ 
Daily Mail 21st March 2023

Met Police officer ‘repeatedly raped’ by colleague and staff urinated on: Key findings of Baroness Casey’s damning review into force

Sky News 21st March 2023

Met chief admits force has racism problem but rejects it’s institutional

BBC News 21st March 2023

Officers in Met’s armed police units ‘game the system’ to cash in on overtime and expenses

The Telegraph 21st March 2023
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Royal Sussex County Hospital – Brighton

Royal Sussex County Hospital - Brighton West Sussex

The Royal Sussex County Hospital is an acute teaching hospital in Brighton, East Sussex. It is part of the University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust.

The hospital and trust are well known for scandal, controversy and medical negligence. It has also been accused of bullying whistle-blowers and turning a blind eye to serious complaints about nursing staff.

University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust was placed in category four, receiving a score of 2.82 and placing 117th out of 134 trusts. This trust includes the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton.

A Sussex NHS trust has been rated among the worst performing in England.

Doctor must be chaperoned with female patients. Jeremy Stuart Clark is a general surgeon specialising in keyhole surgery at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust (UHSx) and the Nuffield Health Brighton Hospital. BBC News 27th April 2026

Sussex Police expand NHS death inquiry to heart patients. “…police are now starting to review a small number of cases relating to cardiothoracic surgery at the Royal Sussex County Hospital.” – BBC News 15th April 2026

Inspectors flag up safety concerns at Brighton hospital. The Care Quality Commission (CQC), have threatened to take enforcement action after their visit to the Royal Sussex County Hospital, in Kemp Town, unless things improve rapidly – Brighton and Hove News 17th December 2025

New boss takes charge of trust that runs Brighton hospitals – Brighton and Hove News 15th December 2025

Family sues Royal Sussex County Hospital over father’s death – BBC News 2nd October 2025

Call to suspend Royal Sussex County Hospital medics under police investigation – BBC 26 August 2025

The care Ms Smart’s mother received from the University Hospitals Sussex NHS Trust at the Royal Sussex County hospital is being investigated by Sussex Police as part of Operation Bramber, which is looking into at least 200 cases of alleged medical negligence.

Surgeon banned by private practice is working for NHS – Mr Lamah continues to operate as a colorectal surgeon at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton.

New details emerge of “appalling” surgical practices at Royal Sussex – 2nd October 2024

Details are emerging of some of the “appalling” practices being used by surgeons whose work is under police investigation at a scandal-hit hospital.

One surgeon at the Royal Sussex County Hospital has been revealed as having used his own penknife – which he used to cut fruit for his lunch – to open up a patient’s chest in an operation.

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Surgeon operated with penknife he uses to cut up lunch – BBC News

Gang culture at neurosurgery department, doctor alleges.

Neurosurgeon Mansoor Foroughi is one of two surgeons who alleges patients were put at risk at University Hospitals Sussex, where Sussex Police are investigating 105 cases of alleged medical negligence.

BBC News 12th April 2024

England’s worst maternity units named and shamed. Yet for eight parts of England, including Brighton, Derby and Luton, MailOnline can reveal the only maternity unit is rated ‘inadequate’ – the Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) worst possible score. 

At The Royal Sussex County Hospital, CQC inspectors warned call bells would run for up to ten minutes before staff members responded. Emergency buzzers used to call a doctor could not be heard in some areas.

The hospital’s unannounced inspection was carried out following patient complaints and whistleblowing staff. 

Royal Sussex County Hospital – Daily Mail

Royal Sussex County Hospital CQC Inspection

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of health and adult social care in England.

The CQC make sure health and social care services provide people with safe, effective, compassionate, high-quality care and we encourage care services to improve.

The CQC monitor, inspect and regulate services and publish what we find. Where we find poor care, we will use our powers to take action.

  • Safe – Requires improvement
  • Effective – Requires improvement
  • Caring – Outstanding
  • Responsive – Requires improvement
  • Well-led – Requires improvement

Full CQC inspection report for Royal Sussex County Hospital

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Date of inspection visit: 1st to 3rd August 2023 / Published 14th February 2024

‘Let down by a culture of fear’

The NHS Trust that runs hospitals in Sussex has been stripped of its ‘outstanding’ status by its health watchdog and has been downgraded to ‘requires improvement’.

The Care Quality Commission sent in inspectors after whistleblowing concerns were raised by staff themselves.

There are changes, too, for individual hospitals with Brighton’s Royal Sussex County going from ‘good’ to ‘inadequate’ and the Princess Royal at Haywards Heath going from ‘good’ to ‘requires improvement’.

Inspectors said staff and patients were “being let down” by senior leaders who appeared “out of touch” with what was happening on wards and in clinical areas.

And staff who felt bullied or harassed felt pressured into “making unsafe decisions” amid a culture of fear.

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Care Quality Commission (CQC) and Bullying

Royal Sussex County Hospital bosses told to make urgent improvements.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) said that the culture in surgery theatres at the Royal Sussex County Hospital was “still poor” and that staff did not feel they could raise concerns without “fear of reprisals”.

The unannounced visit last August found an “improving” culture on the wards where staff felt respected and supported but inspectors also heard examples of bullying in the surgery unit from 30 members of staff.

CQC bosses said that improvements had been made in some aspects of surgery at the hospital since inspections in 2021 and 2022, resulting in the rating of the unit being raised from “inadequate” to “requires improvement”.

The findings come as a review commissioned by University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust, which runs the hospital, reported instances of bullying and harassment and a “culture of fear” regarding the top leadership team earlier this month.

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Medical Negligence

Sussex police consider manslaughter charges over dozens of hospital deaths

Police are investigating 105 cases of alleged medical negligence at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton amid claims of a cover-up.

Police are investigating 105 cases of alleged medical negligence at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton amid claims of a cover-up.

Specialist officers from the National Crime Agency and Sussex police are looking into cases of harm, which include at least 40 deaths, in the general surgery and neurosurgery departments between 2015 and 2021.

An email from Sussex police, released to The Times after a court application, revealed the huge investigation is looking into 84 cases connected to neurology and 21 related to gastroenterology. Most of the families are yet to be told that their case is among them.

Officers were called in by the senior coroner after she heard of allegations made by two consultant surgeons at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust, one of the largest NHS organisations with 20,000 staff.

The trust has been accused of bullying the whistleblowers and attempting to cover up the circumstances of the deaths.

Mansoor Foroughi, a consultant neurosurgeon, was sacked for “acting in bad faith” in December 2021 after raising concerns about 19 deaths and 23 cases of serious patient harm.

Another whistleblower, Krishna Singh, a consultant general surgeon, claimed that he lost his post as clinical director because he said the trust promoted insufficiently competent surgeons, introduced an unsafe rota and had cut costs too quickly.

The Times 27th November 2023

Transgender Breast Milk

An NHS trust has claimed that breast milk from transgender women is just as good as that produced by a mother who has given birth.

The Telegraph reported that a leaked letter from a University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust medical director said milk produced by trans-women, with the help of drugs, is “comparable to that produced following the birth of a baby”.

The hospital became the first to use the gender-inclusive terms “chestfeeding” and “human milk” for its perinatal services in 2021. It created what it called the “first clinical and language guidelines supporting trans and non-binary birthing people”.

The Standard – University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust guidance attracts criticism from campaigners after being leaked in letter

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