2025 28789 Vehicle theft (2020 - 2025 to date)

REQUEST

Dear Gwent Police,
I am requesting the following information under the Freedom of Information Act, relating to vehicle thefts in your force area from 1st January 2020 to the most recent available data in 2025:
Q1. The number of recorded vehicle thefts (theft or unauthorised taking of a
motor vehicle – Home Office offence code 48), broken down by calendar year
(2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 to date).
Q2. The number of those vehicles that were subsequently recovered, broken
down by year if available.
Q3. The five most commonly stolen vehicle makes and models across the full
period (2020–2025 to date).
Q4. If available, the three most common location types where vehicle thefts
occurred (e.g. on-street, driveway, car park).
Q5. If held, the top three postcode districts in your force area with the highest
number of vehicle thefts across the period (2020–2025 to date), including total
theft numbers for each.
If this request exceeds the cost limit, please prioritise questions 1, 3 and 5, and
let me know how it could be refined.

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