Since 2018, it has no longer been possible for the police to include multiple crimes that may be linked in a single recorded crime - for example, the illegal possession of a firearm in the case of an armed street robbery. Prior to July 2018, in cases where more than one crime was included in one crime record, only the most serious crime was counted. As a result of the new registration method, there was an ostensible increase in certain types of crime, such as the illegal buying and selling of weapons and illegal entry into a building, relative to 2017.
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