Motor Vehicle Theft - 1140/23

Date Responded 11 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:

1) Since 01/01/2023 per month how many reported crimes of theft of motor vehicle have been recorded?

2) How many of the stolen vehicles recorded since 01/01/2023 have since been recovered?

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.

Month	Count
Jan’23	189
Feb’23	192
Mar’23	191
Apr’23	204
May’23	183
Jun’23	158
Jul’23	146
Aug’23	39
Total	1,302

Month	Count
Jan’23	125
Feb’23	113
Mar’23	112
Apr’23	132
May’23	109
Jun’23	93
Jul’23	78
Aug’23	19
Total	781

The below should be noted when viewing the figures above:

The data has been taken from Systems where the following offences have been taken into account:
Aggravated vehicle taking,
Theft of motor vehicle,
Taking a motor vehicle,
Unauthorised taking or driving of a motor vehicle,
Aggravated Taking where the only aggravating factor is Criminal Damage of £5,000 or under.
The crime numbers were then processed to get the vehicle details. The data was then pivoted to satisfy the request.
The data correct is to 07/08/2023.
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.

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.