Mobile Phone Theft (394A/24)
Request
Q1. How many reports of mobile phone theft have you received in your area in 2023?
Q2. How many reports of mobile phone theft have you received in your area in the following years? Please provide a figure for each year:
2022
2021
2024 to date
Q.3 How many reports of mobile phone robbery (i.e. a mobile phone snatched from a person) have you received in your area in the following years? Please provide a figure for each year:
2023
2022
2021
2024 to date
Response
Please find attached (394A_24_attachment.pdf).
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.