Theft From Person - 1366/21

Date Responded 29 October 2021

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. The number of "theft from a person" related crimes from all areas/locations within your authority over the last five calendar years (2016 - 2021, if you hold 2021 crimes), per year for each policing district/council area.

2. If possible, I would also like you to outline the items people have had stolen from them, when the "theft from a person" offenses were logged. For example, money, handbag, clothes, etc.

In Response:

Following receipt of your request, searches were conducted within 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.

Area	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Gateshead	97	134	106	143	117	76
Newcastle	622	754	716	833	437	279
North Tyneside	73	99	74	116	91	63
Northumberland	86	78	101	128	89	68
South Tyneside	49	69	72	60	48	41
Sunderland	129	214	143	173	125	77

Item Type	Count
Additional Minor Property	24
Agriculture/Horticulture	11
Animals	9
Audio/Visual	2,551
Books/Magazines	14
Building/Diy	13
Camping	14
Chemicals	11
Clothing/Linen	148
Computers/Accessories	72
Documents/Cash/Stamps	4,813
Domestic Items	16
Drugs/Poisons	103
Electric Equip Not Domestic	6
Firearm/Ammo/Explosive	1
Foodstuffs/Drinks	59
Fuel	1
Furniture/Household Effects	25
Handbags/Purses/Luggage	1,940
Jewellery	160
Keys/Locks/Safes	259
Medical Equip Not Drugs	9
Metals	4
Office Equipment/Stationery	169
Pedal Cycles	40
Personal/Toiletries	127
Photographic/Optical	90
Plant/Machinery/Trailer	6
Prams/Nursery	1
Religious Articles	1
Security Device/Equipment	2
Shop/Pub Fittings	3
Sports	19
Tobacco	74
Tools	14
Toys/Games/Amusements	12
Vehicle/Accessories	19
Watches/Clocks	79

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.

If you decide to write an article / use the enclosed data we would ask you to take into consideration the factors highlighted in this document so as to not mislead members of the public or official bodies, or misrepresent the relevance of the whole or any part of this disclosed material.

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.