FOI 13117-25 Gold burglaries
Request to Northamptonshire Police:
Please can you provide data on the number of household burglaries over the past six years (2019-2025) where the thieves were specifically targeting gold jewelry. Please include a breakdown of the ethnicity of every victim.
Response:
Crime searched for all occurrences from 1st January 2019 to present where Crime Tree Level 2 is 'Theft Offences' and the keywords 'Rings, Bracelets, Necklaces, Earrings and Gold' appear in either 'Property Description, Property Label Description, Property Remarks or MO Free Text'.
As with any keyword search, the search will only return exact matches within the. This does not account for differences in terminology and/or spelling used. Keyword searches are problematic and in no way provide accurate results or figures. If the selected key words have not been mentioned the data will not be returned. Vice versa, if the key words have been mentioned in an unrelated context irrelevant data will be collected.
We cannot confirm that the offenders were specifically targeting gold jewelry.
|
|
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 |
2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
0. Unknown |
9 |
16 |
7 |
11 |
6 |
13 |
3 |
|
1. White - North European |
46 |
26 |
8 |
13 |
14 |
7 |
4 |
|
2. White - South European |
1 |
2 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
3. Black |
1 |
|
|
|
1 |
1 |
|
|
4. Asian |
3 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
|
|
|
5. Chinese,Japanese,SE Asian |
|
2 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
6. Middle Eastern |
1 |
1 |
1 |
|
|
1 |
|
|
(blank) |
9 |
1 |
|
3 |
2 |
|
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