Burglaries- 1826/22

Date Responded 13 February 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:

1. How many burglaries have been reported to your force in the current year to date, and for every calendar year since 2010.

2. How many burglaries have been attended by members of your Force for the current year to date, and for every calendar year since 2010.

3. Please can you provide the waiting times for officers or staff from your Force to attend a burglary for the current year to date, and for every calendar year since 2010.

4. How many police stations have closed in your Force Area since 2010?

5. How many front counters have closed in your Force Area since 2010?

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 in part by Northumbria Police.

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

• For points 1-3 we only hold the data in an easily retrievable format from 1 January 2017. To go back to 2010 would have made this submission subject to a Section 12 refusal. Rather than refuse we have supplied the information we can supply as below.

• For points 1-3 the following offences were taken into account:
- Burglary in a dwelling (excluding attempted, distraction and attempted distraction burglary)
- Burglary in a dwelling (excluding attempted, distraction and attempted distraction burglary)
- Burglary in a dwelling (excluding attempted, distraction and attempted distraction burglary)
- Aggravated burglary in a dwelling Burglary in a building other than a dwelling (OTD)
- Burglary in a building other than a dwelling (OTD)
- Aggravated burglary in a building other than a dwelling

• It should be noted that not all burglaries are visited, offences where the building was a shed and the value of the burglary was low can be dealt with by means of a phone call, each call will be dealt with according to the individual circumstances, however it is the Force policy that all houses that are burgled do have a visit from an officer.

• For point 3 it should be noted that the time an Officer visits the victim is at the victims discretion

Year	Count
2017	9,646
2018	8,967
2019	7,941
2020	6,554
2021	5,837
2022	6,524
Total	45,469

Year	Count
2017	7,788
2018	6,722
2019	3,730
2020	2,318
2021	2,144
2022	2,593
Total	25,295

Visited	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	Total
Within 6 hours	6,417	5,512	3,383	2,241	1,992	2,124	21,669
Within 12 hours	360	267	98	34	60	123	942
Within 18 hours	196	143	45	20	37	89	530
Within 24 hours	352	261	73	8	23	69	786
Within 36 hours	228	242	54	3	17	58	602
Within 48 hours	92	110	30	6	7	42	287
Within 3 days	81	87	23	2	5	49	247
Within 4 days	29	52	12	1	-	14	108
Within 1 week	27	42	8	3	3	17	100
Within 2 weeks	5	6	4	-	-	5	20
Over 3 weeks	1	-	-	-	-	2	3
Not stated	-	-	-	-	-	1	1
Total	7,788	6,722	3,730	2,318	2,144	2,593	25,295

4-5. As the information you have requested at these points, up to 31 December 2021 is accessible by other means I have not provided you with a copy of the information and will rely on Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. You should therefore consider this a refusal for those parts of your request.

I have provided an explanation to this exemption below.

Section 21 (1) - Information accessible by other means

Information which is reasonably accessible to the applicant is exempt information.

The information you have requested is freely available as it is published on our disclosure log and in order to aid and assist you further I have provided a link to the relevant page below:

Police Station and Counter Closures - 1456/22 : Northumbria Police

For the period from 1 January 2022 to the date of your request we can advise that no further police stations have been closed/relocated.

Disclaimer

Due to the different methods of recording information across 43 forces, a specific response from one constabulary should not be seen as an indication of what information could be supplied (within cost) by another. Systems used for recording these figures are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data. For this reason responses between forces may differ, and should not be used for comparative purposes.

The information we have supplied to you is likely to contain intellectual property rights of Northumbria Police. Your use of the information must be strictly in accordance with the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 (as amended) or such other applicable legislation. In particular, you must not re-use this information for any commercial purpose.