Shoplifting - 184/20

Date Responded 03 February 2020

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:

How many shoplifting offences have there been in Washington in the last five years?
What are the five worst streets for shoplifting offences over these years?
What percentage of those offences resulted in criminal charges?

Please break down both questions by calendar years

In Response:

We have now had the opportunity to fully consider your request and I provide a response for your attention.

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.

To note this request will be aggregated with your previous similar request, FOI 1583/19 refers, due to cost/time constraints.

We have taken the time period to be 5 calendar years 2015 – 2019 as the time period was not specified,

Year	Shoplifting Offences
2015	237
2016	339
2017	371
2018	455
2019	592
Total	1994

Year	Postcode	Street Name
2015	NE387NF	Washington Centre
	NE387RW	The Galleries Retail Park
	NE371LH	Elswick Road
	NE387RU	The Galleries
	NE372SU	Victoria Place
2016	NE371LH	Elswick Road
	NE387RU	The Galleries
	NE371EZ	Parsons Road
	NE387NF	Washington Centre
	NE387RW	The Galleries Retail Park
2017	NE387RU	The Galleries
	NE371LH	Elswick Road
	NE371EZ	Parsons Road
	NE387RW	The Galleries Retail Park
	NE387NF	Washington Centre
2018	NE387RW	The Galleries Retail Park
	NE387RU	The Galleries
	NE371LH	Elswick Road
	NE387NF	Washington Centre
	NE372SU	Victoria Place
2019	NE387RU	The Galleries
	NE371EZ	Parsons Road
	NE371LH	Elswick Road
	NE387NF	Washington Centre
	NE372SU	Victoria Place

3. No information held, this is not recorded information.

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.

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