2022/25023 - Robberies of Independent Retailers

REQUEST

I’m hoping you can help me in my research into robberies of independent retailers and goods from their vehicles from outside cash & carries/wholesale depots. I’ve been contacted by shop owners concerned about this becoming a more common occurrence and I believe there is strong public interest for this to be published.

Please could you provide the following information:

 

The address, crime date, offence type, crime reference number and theft value (if logged/applicable) of each crime reported between December 1 2019 and December 1 2021 that include any of the search terms listed below and any of the criminal offence types listed below.

Search terms:

• Cash and carry
• Cash & carry
• Depot
• Wholesale
• Costco
• Booker
• Bestway
• Parfetts
• Dhamecha
• Blakemore
• Filshill

 

*Criminal offence types requested:

• Burglary
• Theft (including from a vehicle and in transit)
• Robbery (including armed)
• Violence against the person

 

RESPONSE

To provide this data, offences that were reported from 01/12/2019 – 01/12/2021 were filtered to only include the following offence categories:

 

• Robbery
• Commercial Burglary
• Residential Burglary
• Violence with injury
• Violence without injury
• Theft from the person
• All other theft
• Bicycle theft

 

A keyword search was then completed in the crime summaries on the data collected using the suggested terms. There were 11 returns, the details of which are provided below. Please note that we do not provide crime reference numbers.  This data is reliant on the terms mentioned above being spelt correctly and being included in the short crime summary of each offence.

 

Recorded Date	Neighbourhood	Current Offence Group	Offence Title	Amount stolen
29/01/2020	Monmouthshire	COMMERCIAL BURGLARY	ATTEMPTED BURGLARY - BUSINESS AND COMMUNITY	None
29/03/2021	Newport East	COMMERCIAL BURGLARY	BURGLARY - BUSINESS AND COMMUNITY	Boxes of tobacco – estimated value of £200
18/09/2020	Caerphilly Central	VIOLENCE WITHOUT INJURY	PROTECTION FROM HARASSMENT ACT SEC 2. (S.2 PROTECTION FROM HARASSMENT ACT 1997)	None
26/02/2021	Blaenau Gwent	VIOLENCE WITHOUT INJURY	COMMON ASSAULT AND BATTERY (CRIMINAL JUSTICE ACT 1988 SEC 39.)	None
16/01/2020	Torfaen	ALL OTHER THEFT	THEFT IF NOT CLASSIFIED ELSEWHERE (THEFT NON SPECIFIC)	iPhone 7, no value provided
11/06/2020	Newport East	ALL OTHER THEFT	THEFT IF NOT CLASSIFIED ELSEWHERE (THEFT NON SPECIFIC)	Perfume Bottle, £361
29/11/2020	Torfaen	ALL OTHER THEFT	THEFT BY AN EMPLOYEE	Meat - estimated value of £100
16/01/2021	Newport West	ALL OTHER THEFT	THEFT IF NOT CLASSIFIED ELSEWHERE (THEFT NON SPECIFIC)	Phone, no value provided
09/06/2021	Monmouthshire	ALL OTHER THEFT	THEFT IF NOT CLASSIFIED ELSEWHERE (THEFT NON SPECIFIC)	Parcel, no value provided
11/06/2021	Caerphilly Central	ALL OTHER THEFT	THEFT IF NOT CLASSIFIED ELSEWHERE (THEFT NON SPECIFIC)	Soundbar, no value provided
23/06/2021	Caerphilly North	ALL OTHER THEFT	THEFT IF NOT CLASSIFIED ELSEWHERE (THEFT NON SPECIFIC)	3 and 2-seater sofas, estimated value of £100