2025/28985 - Theft of Motor Vehicle Data

REQUEST

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would like to request the following information regarding vehicle theft in your police force area. 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.

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

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

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

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

If any of the above data is only available in financial years (rather than calendar years), please make this clear and provide the information in that format instead.

RESPONSE