FOI 220-2025 / Feb 2025 / Vehicle theft
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NO: FOI-220-2025
I write in connection with your request for information which was received on 17th February 2025 as follows:
1) How many incidents of theft of a motor vehicle were reported to your force in the following calendar years: 2024, 2023 and 2022.
2) How many of those reports resulted in an officer attending the scene in the following calendar years: 2024, 2023 and 2022.
Please accept my sincere apologies for the delay in providing the response to your request and for any inconvenience that this may have caused you. Please find the Warwickshire Police response set out below. When reviewing the information, please note the following:
- For Q1, searches were conducted for all incidents with disposal code ‘THEFT OF VEHICLE’, reported via Command and Control, between 1st January 2024 and 31st December 2024.
- For Q2 the results were filtered to remove any incidents with a blank response time (denoting none attendance); however, it is not currently possible to differentiate between whether an incident was attended by an officer or PCSO.
- It may be possible that, where a report is recorded on the Crime Recording System then an officer may attend during the course of the investigation; therefore, the figures provided for attendance do not necessarily denote that a visit did not take place past the point of initial deployment.
Response:
Number of incidents with disposal code ‘theft of motor vehicle’ recorded:
2022 – 892
2023 – 728
2024 – 697
Number of incidents with disposal code ‘theft of motor vehicle’ recorded, without a blank response time:
2022 – 282
2023 – 218
2024 – 193
Please note however, that the number of incidents reported via the Command and Control System with a disposal code ‘Theft of vehicle’ does not equate to the number of crimes recorded on the Crime Recording System, during the stated period.
As a gesture of goodwill, I have also provided the number of crimes recorded under Home Office Code 048/01 – ‘Theft of motor vehicle’, during the stated period. However, although all crimes are investigated, there is no way of ascertaining, from the Crime Recording System, the number of times an officer attended the scene without reviewing each and every crime on an individual basis. Which would involve a disproportionate amount of effort and would take us over the fees limit (£450) as stated in the Freedom of Information (Fees and Appropriate Limit) Regulations 2004.
|
Offence |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 |
Grand Total |
|
048/01 - Theft of a motor vehicle |
1067 |
1023 |
1045 |
3135 |
Every effort has been made to ensure that the information provided is as accurate as possible.
Your attention is drawn to the below which details your right of complaint.
Should you have any further enquiries concerning this matter, please write or email the Freedom of Information Unit quoting the reference number above.
Yours sincerely
Freedom of Information Officer
Freedom of Information Unit
Warwickshire Police
PO Box 4
Leek Wootton
Warwickshire
CV35 7QB