All cases that flow into the Public Prosecution Service in the relevant year (01-01-2001 - 20-11-2023)

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A registered (court) criminal case is a file registered with the prosecutor’s office with the report of a report concerning one suspect. If more suspects are prevented in a report, a criminal case is registered for each suspect. A rule in the file is a criminal case. This data draft contains court criminal cases that have been brought into the Public Prosecution Service (OM), the characteristics of the case such as the date of registration, the characteristics of the suspect such as the RIN number and the type of suspect and the characteristics of the fact such as the date of commission and the nature of the crime. The component includes both natural and legal persons. More information on how to access the data: > https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/onze-diensten/maatwerk-en-microdata/microdata-zelf-onderzoek-doen ### Methodology The component is unique on case number and serial number. A person may appear in the component several times if multiple cases against this person are registered with the Public Prosecution Service. When determining the type of crime, the most serious fact in the case is considered. This is determined on the basis of the fact that the law contains the highest penalty. In the event of equal penalties, the former shall be taken. Based on the most serious fact, the classification according to standard classification of crimes 2010 is made. According to the annual reports of the Public Prosecution Service, the introduction of GPS in 2009 explains 42 % of the inflow drop and in 2010 about one third. As possible other factors that have caused a decline, the Public Prosecution Service mentions, among other things, the reduction of common crime, the Basic Provision Enforcement of the police and the increasingly successful handling of cases by means of a penalty order. The 2011 increase can partly be attributed to the fact that the effects of the introduction of GPS have been worked out and partly to the increase in the number of arrested suspects by the police. The introduction of GPS has resulted in a modified working method of the Public Prosecution Service. The Public Prosecution Service registers minutes later, rejects part of the inflow and then no longer registers it. In COMPAS cases were registered immediately after receipt, in GPS this is done after an assessment. The result is, on the one hand, that goods are registered with some delay and, on the other hand, that goods are no longer registered at all. This results in a decrease in the figures, part of which is structural due to rejected cases and part incidentally due to the delay in the assessment of new cases. Due to this difference in registration, the date of registration in the systems in GPS and COMPAS is also entered differently. This affects the calculation of lead times (the difference between the date of registration and the date on which the case flows out at the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the court). This is important for calculating the lead times. In 2013, BOSZ (Better Investigation by Sturing op Zaken) was introduced. This is a national case monitoring system for police (crime) files. In principle, part of the technical sepots only had to be recorded in BOSZ. These cases were not given a public prosecutor’s number and were not counted in the influx and decisions of OM. However, this did not apply to all technical sepots. For example, sex cases or cases involving serious violent offences had to be registered in COMPAS/GPS, and technical sepots were also recorded in the system if it appeared that the case could not be proved at a later stage. As of 2019, all technical sepots will in principle be introduced into the OM systems. A number of prosecutors have already started in the last months of 2018 to record all decisions in GPS ### Population The influx of the Public Prosecution Service (OM) is determined by selecting all cases with at least one primary court event whose date of registration is in the relevant year. With this, the file contains all court criminal cases registered with the Public Prosecution Service during the reporting year. These criminal cases were completed in the reporting year or in a later reporting year. For the most part, court criminal cases concern crimes. However, a very specific part of the crimes (poaching and some environmental and drug offences) is not part of this, as they are dealt with by the canton sector. In addition, some offences (landwalking, begging, in the economic sphere or in combination with crimes) are dealt with by the criminal sector (around 1.3 % of court criminal cases in recent years). This concerns cases from two systems of the Public Prosecution Service: Communication system Public Prosecutor’s Office Administration (COMPAS) and Integrated Process System (GPS). The latter has been gradually introduced by the public prosecutors since 2008. Cases transferred to another public prosecutor’s office in COMPAS are double counted in the inflow figures. These flows in both one parquet and the other. The same is the case with a case that is transferred from GPS to COMPAS. This happens, for example, if a case turns out to be too complex to process in GPS. It may take some time for the case to be transferred, which is often not yet known at the time of publication. Therefore, it is chosen to have a 'frozen ' picture of one year to give and not correct for the double inflow. The transfers and transfers are also included in the outflow OM, so that an image is given of the number of things and therefore the inflow and outflow are comparable.

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  • strafzaak
  • microdata
  • data-governance-act
  • odissei
  • delict
  • misdrijf
  • dga

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