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:
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information on lost and stolen wrist watches.
1. How many watches were recorded as stolen in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022? Please provide figures for each year.
2. What was the combined value of these watches? Please provide figures for each year.
3. How many watches have been recorded as stolen in the first six months of 2023: 1st January 2023 to 30th June 2023?
4. What was the combined valued of these watches?
5. What percentage/number of watches recorded as stolen in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 were recovered?
6. What percentage/number of watches reported stolen in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 involved some form of violence against the owner/person wearing the watch?
7. What percentage/number of watches reported stolen in the first six months of 2023 involved some form of violence against owner/person wearing the watch?
8. What percentage/number of watches reported stolen in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 have resulted in the fatality of the victim?
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.
1.
| Year |
Count |
|
2019 |
464 |
|
2020 |
320 |
|
2021 |
251 |
|
2022 |
355 |
|
Total |
1,390 |
2.
|
Year |
Count |
|
2019 |
£820,258.75 |
|
2020 |
£494,041.78 |
|
2021 |
£294,284.35 |
|
2022 |
£497,064.14 |
|
Total |
£2,105,649.02 |
3. 151
4. £270980.96
5.
|
Year |
Count |
|
2019 |
36 |
|
2020 |
23 |
|
2021 |
18 |
|
2022 |
16 |
|
Total |
93 |
6.
|
Year |
Count |
|
2019 |
7 |
|
2020 |
5 |
|
2021 |
7 |
|
2022 |
8 |
|
Total |
27 |
7. 6
8. None
The below should be noted when viewing the figures above:
- The data has been taken from Systems using the 'Property for Crimes selected' where the type is watch and the property status is either stolen or recovered, the corresponding offences have then been downloaded to collect the data.
- The following offences were those reviewed to find the victims that involved some form of violence:
- Aggravated Burglary Residential (Home);
- Aggravated vehicle taking;
- Assault occasioning actual bodily harm (malicious wounding);
- Common assault and battery;
- Inflicting grievous bodily harm, without intent;
- Racially aggravated actual bodily harm;
- Wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm.
- 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.
