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:
The number of pickpocketing-related crimes from all areas/locations within your authority over the last five calendar years (2015 - 2021, if you hold 2021 crimes), per year for each policing district/council area.
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, however the following caveats should be noted:
• The data has been taken form the central database using the crime tables where the method/Means columns have contained the code for pickpocketing.. Each incident has three columns for method/means.. The codes for method/means are applied according to priority in relation to the offence, therefore it is possible that method/means codes searched for relating to this FOI have not been recorded due to other method/means codes taking precedence, in these cases the offence will not be captured in the final dataset.
• 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.
|
District |
2015 |
2016 |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
Total |
|
Gateshead |
15 |
15 |
12 |
4 |
7 |
7 |
2 |
62 |
|
Newcastle |
179 |
155 |
46 |
44 |
104 |
57 |
27 |
612 |
|
North Tyneside |
16 |
9 |
8 |
4 |
5 |
9 |
4 |
55 |
|
Northumberland |
9 |
18 |
8 |
3 |
11 |
8 |
6 |
63 |
|
South Tyneside |
11 |
11 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
6 |
2 |
36 |
|
Sunderland |
41 |
30 |
17 |
6 |
22 |
16 |
5 |
137 |
|
Total |
271 |
238 |
92 |
63 |
152 |
103 |
46 |
965 |
