Municipal and departmental statistical bases for delinquency registered by the national police and gendarmerie

In the course of their judicial activity, the police and gendarmerie services draw up procedures for offences before forwarding them to the judicial authority which is likely to reclassify them during or after the investigation. These offences could be found following a complaint, a report, testimony, flagrante delicto, denunciation or on the initiative of the security forces. Information collected via a handrail is not included. Finally, infringements identified by other services (customs, environmental offices, etc.) are also not included. Since 1972, the security services (police and gendarmerie) have developed a standardised tool for measuring the judicial activity of the services based on monthly counts, called “State 4001”. This administrative document covers crimes and offences (excluding tickets and road offences), registered for the first time by the security forces and brought to the attention of the judicial institution. Infringements are classified into 107 categories (so-called “index”), very heterogeneous by the nature and gravity of the facts, but also by the number of infringements detected each month. Depending on the index, the unit of account withheld may vary: it may be the victim, for example, in matters of sexual violence, the perpetrator for example in the use or resale of narcotics, the vehicle in respect of vehicle theft, etc. This implies that it is not relevant to constitute aggregates of indexes that do not have the same unit of account. Since its inception at the end of 2014, the Ministerial Statistical Service for Homeland Security ([SSMSI](https://www.interieur.gouv.fr/Interstats/Qui-sommes-nous)) expertise and fiabilises these different indexes and disseminates indicators selected and built on the basis of groupings of these indexes. Moreover, since 2016, the use of more detailed data than the state index 4001 has enabled the SSMSI to build additional indicators, for example on the scope of domestic physical violence, etc. **In order to facilitate the opening of data on crime and insecurity, SSMSI has made available two annual databases on the main indicators of crimes and offences recorded by the national police and gendarmerie since 2016: one at the municipal level and the other at the departmental level, both according to the place of commission.** These databases are intended to be enriched as data for other indicators become reliable (scams, deliberate destruction/degradation, breaches of drug legislation, etc.). In addition to the indicators of crimes and offences, the municipal database contains information on the municipality where the facts occurred, such as the official geographical codes of the municipality, the department and the region of belonging, their respective wording, the corresponding resident populations,... (for more details please refer to the Documentation area below) Find the analysis of the geography of delinquency at the municipal level on the SSMSI Interstats website via the following link: [https://www.interieur.gouv.fr/Interstats/Publications/Interstats-Analyse/Geographie-de-la-delinquance-a-l-echelle-communale-Interstats-Analyse-N-44](https://www.interieur.gouv.fr/Interstats/Publications/Interstats-Analyse/Geographie-de-la-delinquance-a-l-echelle-communale-Interstats-Analyse-N-44) **Last update:** March 2022 **Annual update**