Christmas Period Burglaries 2018-2020 - 1618/21

Date Responded 15 December 2021

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You asked:

1. How many burglaries were reported to the force between December 20 and December 27 in 2020, 2019 and 2018? Please provide a breakdown of the number of offences reported by date and by year.

2. How many of those burglaries were residential? Please breakdown by date and year.

3. How many of those burglaries were aggravated? Please breakdown by date and year.

I’d be grateful if you could provide the force’s disclosure in a csv spreadsheet, with columns headed as follows:
Year – Date – Total Burglaries – Total Residential Burglaries – Total Aggravated Burglaries

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 follows.

Year	Date	Total Burglaries	Total Residential Burglaries	Total Aggravated Burglaries
2018	20-Dec	23	13	0
2018	21-Dec	21	10	0
2018	22-Dec	19	11	0
2018	23-Dec	27	12	0
2018	24-Dec	20	10	0
2018	25-Dec	7	5	0
2018	26-Dec	14	8	0
2018	27-Dec	21	10	0
2019	20-Dec	22	12	0
2019	21-Dec	15	10	0
2019	22-Dec	20	12	1
2019	23-Dec	24	17	0
2019	24-Dec	21	13	1
2019	25-Dec	7	5	0
2019	26-Dec	18	14	0
2019	27-Dec	22	15	0
2020	20-Dec	14	9	1
2020	21-Dec	17	13	0
2020	22-Dec	14	12	0
2020	23-Dec	19	9	1
2020	24-Dec	9	9	0
2020	25-Dec	6	6	0
2020	26-Dec	6	4	1
2020	27-Dec	14	11	0

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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Disclaimer

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