From Safer Communities and Justice Statistics Monthly Data Report: May 2026 published yesterday:

Increase in crime clear up rate. The clear up rate for all recorded crimes was 56.0% in 2024-25, up from 54.1% in 2023-24. Crimes against society (93.8%), non-sexual crimes of violence (68.4%) and sexual crimes (56.9%) continued to have higher clear up rates in 2024-25 than crimes of dishonesty (35.1%) and damage and reckless behaviour (31.0%).

https://www.gov.scot/publications/safer-communities-and-justice-statistics-monthly-data-report-may-2026/pages/statistics-on-crime-in-general/

Scotland publishes an overall “clear up rate” (crimes solved/cleared), while in England & Wales the main official measure is usually the proportion of crimes resulting in a police “charge/summons” or another “positive outcome” but not necessarily cleared up. In other words, the Scottish criteria are tougher and, had they been applied the England & Wales the rates there might have been lower.

Nevertheless, the charge/summons rate for all crimes in England & Wales was only 7% last year. https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/crime-outcomes-in-england-and-wales-2024-to-2025/crime-outcomes-in-england-and-wales-2024-to-2025?utm_source=chatgpt.com

The positive outcomes rate was only 11% down from 25% a decade before. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/27/police-too-overworked-to-investigate-crimes-properly-england-wales-northern-ireland?utm_source=chatgpt.com