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Classification

This refers to the status of property items such as:

• lost
• stolen
• found
• seized
• located
• damaged
• fraudulently obtained.

Complainant

Party (person) who makes a complaint or files a formal charge, as in a court of law (a plaintiff).

I

Incident

Event, or series of events, reported to police and recorded in QPRIME as an occurrence.

Incident status

Property crime incident may be reported with one of the following statuses:

• new
• open
• investigation commenced
• investigation completed.

L

Location

Where the offence took place.

M

Modus Operandi

Particular way or method of doing something.

O

Occurrence

Describes a policing incident. Property crimes are recorded as a type of ‘occurrence’.

Offence type

Type of crime, for example possession of property suspected stolen.

P

Property items

Items of property listed in a crime report. The item types are:

• vehicle
• vehicle plate
• watercraft
• aircraft
• general property
• animal
• bicycle
• alcohol
• boat motor
• firearm
• security
• drugs.

Q

QP

Abbreviation for QPRIME and prefixes the unique occurrence number assigned to each policing incident.

QPRIME

Queensland Police Records and Information Management Exchange.

S

Status

A property crime incident may be associated with one or more property-related offences. An offence may have one of the following statuses:

• cancelled
• lapsed
• solved
• unfounded
• unsolved
• withdrawn
• non-crime: solved
• non-crime: unsolved.

Subrogation right

A subrogation right is a link recorded between an insurance firm and a crime incident property item that indicates that they have claimed legal ownership of the item.

A subrogation right is exclusive: only one insurance firm may record a current right for an item in the context of an incident. An insurance firm may remove a right to indicate that the claim has been withdrawn.

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