FOI 3140-25 Hotel crime data

Request: 

1. The total count of theft, burglary, and robbery incidents, with a location code of ‘hotel’, ‘motel’ and ‘guest house’ in your police area between 2019 and 2024.
2. Where available, a breakdown of the types of theft, such as:
   • Theft from a person
   • Theft from hotel rooms
   • Burglary
   • Vehicle theft in hotel car parks
3. If recorded, data on the estimated value of stolen goods in these

Response:

Crime searched for all occurrences from January 2019 to December 2024 with Crime Tree Level 2 equal to 'Robbery' or ‘Theft Offences' where ‘MO Location Premises Sub Type’ is ‘Bed & Breakfast’, ‘Guest house’ or ‘Hotel/motel’.

For information on actual notifiable offences, please see below link:

Home Office Crime Recording Rules for frontline officers and staff - GOV.UK

It is not a requirement of Northamptonshire Police to record the value of items stolen.

Officers are not qualified at giving a value of a particular item, nor are they able to factor in any age or wear & tear depreciation. Victims equally may give a value for items stolen as new replacement value, or the value of replacing with the same item of the same age and condition, including VAT or excluding VAT.

Due to this, any information we do hold would not give an accurate picture of the total value of thefts.

The numerical data presented in this response is an un-audited snapshot of un-published data sourced from "live" systems and is subject to the interpretation of the original request by the individual extracting the data.

Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that the data has 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 the 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 the data is 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.