2022/25504 - Tool Theft
REQUEST
I'm contacting you in regards to information and statistics based on tool theft in the UK (2021 or the most recent 12 month data).
The information required is:
- The number of reports a year
- Monetary value of tools stolen
- The breakdown of tool types stolen
- Time of the week tools are stolen from vehicles
- Time of the day tools are stolen
- Where vehicle related thefts occurred
- How the vehicle was entered
RESPONSE
The information below includes all offences categorised as ‘Theft’ where the terms ‘tool’ or ‘tools’ were found within the crime summary. A manual trawl was also conducted to ensure all crimes were relevant to the request. Please note the value of the tools are all approximate due to what has been input by the officer.
The table below which shows the number of offences recorded between 01/01/2021 to 30/09/2022 broken down by approximate value and the Make.
|
|
Make |
|
||
|
Approx value (£) |
Dewalt |
Makita |
Not Specified |
Total |
|
30 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
|
500 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
|
600 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
|
760 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
1000 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
4 |
|
1500 |
0 |
0 |
6 |
6 |
|
2000 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
4 |
|
2000 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
|
2500 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
|
3000 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
|
4500 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
Unknown |
0 |
2 |
108 |
110 |
|
Total |
2 |
2 |
130 |
134 |
The table below shows the number of relevant offences recorded within the time period requested broken by day of the week and time in which the item was stolen.
The table below show the Local Policing Sectors for all the offences noted above, and where the offence title was ‘Theft from a Vehicle’. A manual trawl to search how the vehicle was entered. Please note that the key word search is restricted to the summaries; if the key word was not mentioned in the summaries, then this has been categorised as ‘Not Specified’.
