Theft from Hospitals - 1020/20

Date Responded 23 July 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:

Can you please give me a month-by-month breakdown showing thefts from hospitals in the Northumbria Police force area from 03/07/18 to the 03/07/20
If not, can it please provide the same details since 03/07/2019?
Can you list the item stolen, its value, the victim – patient or visitor, date.

In Response:

Following receipt of your request, searches were conducted within 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.

The data has been taken from the central database where there was a crime from a location that was a hospital within the date range supplied. The resulting crime numbers were then used get the crime type and property / values.

The following crime groups have been included in this FOI .

Other theft and handling
Shoplifting
TFMV
Theft from the person
Theft of a pedal cycle
TWOC

The results of those searches are as attached.

 

Theft from Hospitals - 1020/20

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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