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Date Responded 01 August 2023

Provision of information held by Northumbria Police made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the 'Act')

As you may be aware the purpose of the Act is to allow a general right of access to information held at the time of a request, by a Public Authority (including the Police), subject to certain limitations and exemptions.

You asked:

You asked:

1. For an hourly breakdown, of the occurrence of burglaries in your jurisdiction. I would like a column in 1-hour intervals over a 24-hour period and another column with the number of burglaries that occurred within that one-hour timeframe. This will be from the period 01/01/2022 – 31/12/2022 or the latest 365-day period.

2. A daily breakdown of the occurrence of burglaries in your jurisdiction. I would like the first column to be the first date of that week, whilst columns 2 – 8 will have the frequency of burglaries for that day of the week. The rows will be in weekly intervals and the columns will be broken down by day of the week (Monday, Tuesday etc.) Can this also from the period 01/01/2022 – 31/12/2022 or the latest 365-day period.

In Response:

Following receipt of your request, searches were conducted with the Corporate Development Department of Northumbria Police. I can confirm that the information you have requested is held by Northumbria Police.

I am able to disclose the located information to you as attached with the caveats below noted.

• The data has been taken from searches of systems using the Crime app where the offences considered are:

Aggravated burglary Business/Community
Aggravated Burglary Residential (Home)
Aggravated Burglary Residential (Unconnected Building)
Attempted burglary Business/Community
Attempted Distraction Residential Burglary of a Home
Attempted Residential Burglary of a Home
Burglary Business/Community
Burglary in a building other than a dwelling with intent to commit or with the commission of an offence
Burglary in a dwelling with intent to commit an offence
Burglary in a dwelling with the commission of an offence or with violence or the threat of violence
Burglary of an Unconnected Building with intent to commit an offence
Distraction Residential Burglary of a Home Residential Burglary of a Home

• The date range used is 01/07/2022 to 30/06/2023.

• Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from a number of data sources used by forces for police purposes. The detail collected to respond specifically to your request is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when interpreting those data.

• The figures provided therefore are our best interpretation of relevance of data to your request, but you should be aware that the collation of figures for ad hoc requests may have limitations and this should be taken into account when those data are used.

 

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