FOI 20154-25 Thefts Arrests Recoveries Motor Vehicles

Request to Northamptonshire Police

Please provide the following, broken down by calendar year for the last three full calendar years (2022, 2023 and 2024). Please also provide information from and 2025 to-date up until 31/09/2025). If data is not available up until then, please specify when the 2025 data runs until.

Question 1 - The total number of recorded incidents of theft of a motor vehicle in your area

Question 2 - The total number of arrests made where the principal offence recorded was theft of motor vehicle

Question 3 - The top three locations (for example towns, districts, or wards) in your force area with the highest number of recorded motor vehicle thefts each year

Question 4 - Of the vehicles reported stolen (theft of motor vehicle), how many were subsequently recovered, broken down by year if available

Response

Northamptonshire Police has searched its crime recording system and found the below results. Please note that the information provided has been grouped by calendar year.

Question 1

Question 2 

Question 3 

Question 4

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 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. The figures provided are therefore 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 or 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.