FOI 22577-25 Electricity theft

Request to Northamptonshire Police:

How many crimes reports logged under “Theft Act 1968: Section 13 (for abstraction of electricity)” in 2023, 2024 and to October 2025 – broken down annually.

Of those, how many suspected to be for the cultivation or manufacture of illegal drugs - broken down annually.

Response:

Northamptonshire Police systems are designed primarily for the management of individual cases and not for the production of statistical information for Freedom Of Information responses.

Crime Searched between January 2023 & Oct 2025 (Inclusive) for all occurrences whereby Stats Classification Description is 'Abstract/use without authority electricity' relating to section 13 of the Theft Act 1968 and then a manual search to determine if it was connected to the illegal manufacture of drugs

2023=13, 2024=5, to October 2025=9
2023=6, 2024=3, to October 2025=4

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