A Notifiable Offence is any offence under United Kingdom law where the police must inform the Home Office by completing a crime report form for statistical purposes. There are strict rules regarding the recording of crime which is outlined in the Home office counting rules for recorded crime. An incident will be recorded as a crime (notifiable offence);
For offences against an identifiable victim if, on the balance of probability; a) The circumstances as reported amount to a crime defined by law (the police will determine this, based on their knowledge of the law and counting rules), and b) There is no credible evidence to the contrary.
For offences against the stated the points to prove to evidence the offence must clearly be made out, before a crime is recorded.
The following offences are generally categorised as notifiable offences;