These documents provide the Summary of Recorded and Resolved Offence Statistics broken down into 12 districts plus one national publication. They were released 1 April 2015 and cover calendar year ending 31 December 2014.

Statistics reported in this document are derived from the Police National Intelligence Application (N.I.A) These Official Crime Statistics present a snapshot of data in N.I.A. relating to offences within a given year, as at the date 14 days following the end of that year.

This is a report of the results of a review of the quality of police crime data undertaken by Statistics NZ at the request of the NZ Police.

The purpose of the review was to determine if the right infrastructure and systems were in place to assure the data quality and to recommend measures that might be needed to bring them up to a standard needed to support the production of Tier 1 crime statistics.