Winnipeg Police Service News Release:

Thursday, January 12, 2012     WINNIPEG POLICE SERVICE 2010 ANNUAL REPORT ERRORS IDENTIFIED, AMENDMENT PENDING   The Winnipeg Police Service 2010 Annual Report was made available to the public on December 28th, 2011. Following its release a statistical error come to light that will result in the Service releasing an amended version of our 2010 Annual Report.   The amendments will require a change to the Criminal Code Offences by Month Chart and the Total Criminal Code Offences Chart. Once this work is completed, we will update the charts in question, add footnotes in our Annual Report to clearly explain the changes and advise the public when the updated Report is available.   Background:    This year, effort was undertaken to ensure the manner in which we report statistics is consistent with Statistics Canada reporting through its Police Reported Crime Statistics in Canada 2010 Report.   In 2009, Statistics Canada had amended some of its reported crime categories. This impacts on how we report crime statistics as well.   As a result, the Service introduced a new "Not District Specific" category for reported crimes.   Crimes that appear under this column may include incidents where the crimes occurred over multiple districts. This category also includes incidents where a division, location or area was not identified due to data entry error or would be classified as "City at Large" incidents.  An example of such a City at Large incident would be a stolen license plate.   This change ensures greater consistency between our reported numbers and the numbers reported by Statistics Canada.      The creation of this category resulted in an unusually high number of Theft - Over $5,000 and Theft - $5,000 and Under being reported as "Not District Specific".   We recently learned this may have resulted from an unidentified programming anomaly that we believe resulted from the creation of a new reporting code.   Representatives from both the Winnipeg Police Service and Statistics Canada are working to resolve this matter. We will update the public as soon as this matter is resolved.   Percentage Change Errors   The Total and Grand Total data that initially appeared in the 2010 Annual Report reflected a month-to-month percentage change. The pending revision will show the correct year-over-year percentage change calculations.   We apologize for any confusion this may have caused.     For further information contact either: Constable Natalie Aitken, Public Information Officer Constable Jason Michalyshen, Public Information Officer Office: (204)986-3061 Fax: (204) 986-3267 Email: WPS-PIO@Winnipeg.ca   Web: www.winnipeg.ca/Police

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