article_snippet.sent: Police admitted some of the figures may be inaccurate - including statistics showing a rape suspect aged minus three, and a one-year-old breaching a non-molestation order.
article_snippet.sent: A force spokesman said: ‘The response features information collated in good faith from millions of pieces of data stored on force systems which, on reflection, contains some inaccuracies as a result of human inputting errors at the time of the crime being recorded.'
article_snippet.sent: A force spokesman added that the FOI response was released with the following caveat: 'Although every effort is made to ensure the figures presented are accurate and complete, the data collected is subject to inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recorded system.
article_snippet.sent: As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and care inevitable limitations are taken into account when interpreting the data collected.
article_snippet.sent: ‘Data on ages is calculated from date of birth, which is inputted manually.
article_snippet.sent: Therefore inaccuracies may result from human error.'