FOI 2612-25 Motor Vehicle Theft

Request to Northamptonshire Police

1. Please can you provide details of the number of motor vehicles stolen within your Force area for calendar years 2022, 2023 and 2024

2. Please can you provide details of the number of motor vehicles subject to the 'unauthorised taking of a motor vehicle' within your Force area for calendar years 2022, 2023 and 2024

3. Please can you provide the Make and exact Model recorded on your crime recording system in relation to request 1 and 2 within your Force area for calendar years 2022, 2023 and 2024

4. Please can you advise how many of these motor vehicles were equipped with keyless entry

Response

Question 1 - Search conducted for ‘Theft of Motor Vehicle’
2022 - 726
2023 - 717
2024 - 749

Question 2 - Search conducted for ‘Theft of Motor Vehicle’ and ‘Take a motor vehicle without the owner’s consent’
2022 – 772
2023 – 761
2024 – 775

Question 3
Northamptonshire Police has encountered quality issues in its recording of the data covered in the scope of this part of your request. Therefore, we have concluded that we must issue you with a Refusal Notice under s12 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. This is because
in order to comply, our analysts would need to scrutinise 2308 crime occurrence files. Doing this would exceed the appropriate cost limit of £450.

Question 4
For this part of your request, we have concluded that we must issue you with a Refusal Notice under s12 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. This is because in order to comply, our analysts would need to scrutinise 2308 crime occurrence files. Doing this would exceed the appropriate cost limit of £450.

If you wish to redefine Question 3 and Question 4 in your request to a much shorter period of six months, we would likely be able to supply this information. Results would likely still be subject to data quality issues, due to inaccuracies/omissions when recording information.

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.

Please note that these data should be interpreted with caution. Comparing numbers of incidents/crimes can be misleading and does not necessarily indicate the likelihood of someone being a victim of crime. In addition, the number of incidents/crimes recorded in an area over a period of time can be influenced by a number of factors. Consequently, statistics on incidents/crimes for one period may not necessarily be a good indicator of future incidents in that area.