Officers Shoplifting (1625A/23)
Request
- Please state how many of your serving officers have got a (i) conviction or (ii) a caution for the offence of shoplifting?
- For each individual please state (i) if the offence was finalised by way of a conviction or caution, (ii) was the offence picked up as a pre-employment check or was it carried out after the individual was employed as a police officer, and (iii) the year the offence was committed.
- If possible where there was a shoplifting offence please state the value of the theft and the shop where the offence was committed?
Response
Following receipt of your request, a search was conducted within our Professional Standards Department for information relevant to your request. Please see as follows:
1. Please state how many of your serving officers have got a (i) conviction or (ii) a caution for the offence of shoplifting?
(i) Zero
(ii) One
2. For each individual please state (i) if the offence was finalised by way of a conviction or caution, (ii) was the offence picked up as a pre-employment check or was it carried out after the individual was employed as a police officer, and (iii) the year the offence was committed.
(i) Caution
(ii) Pre-employment offence
(iii) 1997
3. If possible, where there was a shoplifting offence, please state the value of the theft and the shop where the offence was committed?
This information is not known/recorded.
Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from a number of data sources used by forces for police purposes. The detail collected to respond specifically to your request is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when interpreting those data.
The figures provided therefore are 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 those data are used.
If you decide to write an article / use the enclosed data we would ask you to take into consideration the factors highlighted in this document so as to not mislead members of the public or official bodies, or misrepresent the relevance of the whole or any part of this disclosed material.
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