FOI 15772-25 - Wheel Thefts
Request:
1. Theft from Motor Vehicle - Wheels/Tyres Please provide the total number of recorded offences of “theft from a motor vehicle” where wheels and/or tyres were stolen, for each of the last five years (2020–2024).
For this request, “wheels/tyres stolen” refers to any recorded offence where at least one wheel, tyre, or alloy was stolen from a vehicle.
Please provide data by calendar year (Jan–Dec) if available, or by financial year (Apr–Mar) if this is how your data is recorded, and state which has been used.
If “wheels/tyres” are not recorded as a distinct category, please identify relevant offences using Home Office offence codes or keyword searches in the offence description (whichever is easier) and state the codes/keywords used.
If no breakdown for wheels/tyres is available, please provide figures for the nearest available category (e.g., all “vehicle parts stolen”) and state the category used.
2. Monthly Breakdown
If available without exceeding cost/time limits, please also provide the above figures broken down by month for each year.
If monthly figures are not available or would exceed cost limits, please provide annual totals instead.
3. Offence Coding
Please include any relevant Home Office offence codes or internal category descriptions used in the extraction if possible.
Response:
Search between 2020 2024 calendar years inclusive for all occurrences where Crime Type was Theft from Motor Vehicle and included words 'Wheel', 'Alloy' or 'Tyre'. Manually filtered to remove irrelevant results, for example, references to a steering wheel.
Question 1:
|
2020 |
22 |
|---|---|
|
2021 |
13 |
|
2022 |
7 |
|
2023 |
5 |
|
2024 |
5 |
Question 2:
|
|
Jan |
Feb |
Mar |
Apr |
May |
Jun |
Jul |
Aug |
Sep |
Oct |
Nov |
Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
2020 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
3 |
4 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
|
2021 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
|
2022 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
|
2023 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
|
2024 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Question 3:
Descriptions used were Property Type: “Vehicle Parts & Accessories” and Property Description: “Vehicle Accessories”, “Other Vehicle Parts & Accessories” and “Vehicle Parts”. Property was classified as “Stolen” or “Stolen; Damaged” and the crime was “Theft from Motor Vehicle”.
Please note that these data should be interpreted with caution. Comparing numbers of crimes can be misleading and does not necessarily indicate the likelihood of someone being a victim of crime. In addition, the number of crimes recorded in an area over a period of time can be influenced by a number of factors. Consequently, statistics on crimes for one period may not necessarily be a good indicator of future incidents in that area.
The numerical data presented in this response is an unaudited snapshot of unpublished data sourced from "live" systems and is subject to the interpretation of the original request by the individual extracting the data.
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.
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.
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