FOI 558/25
REQUEST
Q1. For each of the following calendar years, please provide the number of cars reported as stolen to the force- 2020-2024
Q2. In each of the following calendar years, please state how many reports of a car being stolen led to a charge or summons. 2020-2024
Clarification: could you instead provide data for all motor vehicles, as opposed to just cars?
RESPONSE
A search has been conducted on our crime and incident recording system (Niche RMS) for all occurrences recorded under the Home Office (HO) offence code 48/48/1: Theft of a motor vehicle reported between 1st January 2020 and 31st December 2024 where ‘South Wales’ is selected as the owning agency.
Question 1
|
Year |
Total |
|
2020 |
1598 |
|
2021 |
1578 |
|
2022 |
1614 |
|
2023 |
2011 |
|
2024 |
2129 |
|
Grand Total |
8930 |
Question 2
Please see below the meanings of the abbreviations included in the outcome data:
- SUA – Suspect underage
- S ill – Suspect ill
- VW dead/ill – Victim or witness dead/ill
- S not identified – Suspect not identified
- VS - Victim Supports
- VDNS – Victim does not support
- NSI – No suspect identified
- V aware – Victim aware
- CPS – Crown Prosecution Service
- NIPI – Not in public interes
I have included all outcome data to provide some context as to why the charged/summons data appears low.
Please note that the outcome ‘00: Not recognised as an official outcome’ includes crimes that have been, ‘Allocated and Finalised’ and Under Investigation. Of 114 results categorised under this outcome we can confirm 59 are currently under investigation.
|
Outcome |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 |
2025 |
Total |
|
Blank |
|
2 |
|
|
|
|
2 |
|
00: Not recognised as an official outcome |
2 |
1 |
6 |
24 |
81 |
|
114 |
|
01: Charged/summonsed |
17 |
25 |
30 |
18 |
33 |
6 |
129 |
|
01a: Charged/summonsed [alternate] |
8 |
21 |
4 |
12 |
22 |
3 |
70 |
|
02: Caution - youths |
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
03: Caution - adults |
1 |
2 |
|
|
1 |
|
4 |
|
04: Taken into consideration |
1 |
1 |
4 |
|
|
|
6 |
|
08: Community resolution |
1 |
2 |
2 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
11 |
|
09: Not in public interest [CPS] |
|
|
1 |
|
1 |
1 |
3 |
|
10: Not in public interest [Police] |
|
1 |
1 |
2 |
|
|
4 |
|
13: Prosecution prevented [VW dead/ill] |
|
|
|
1 |
|
|
1 |
|
14: Evidential difficulties [S not identified] |
18 |
46 |
37 |
42 |
36 |
8 |
187 |
|
15: Evidential difficulties [VS] |
60 |
113 |
107 |
138 |
215 |
33 |
666 |
|
16: Evidential difficulties [VDNS] |
88 |
131 |
140 |
135 |
136 |
16 |
646 |
|
17: Prosecution time limit expired |
2 |
|
3 |
3 |
1 |
|
9 |
|
18: Investigation complete [NSI] |
1122 |
1355 |
1258 |
1525 |
1696 |
98 |
7054 |
|
20: Further action by other agency [V Aware] |
|
2 |
3 |
1 |
|
|
6 |
|
21: Investigation not in public interest [Police] |
|
|
2 |
5 |
9 |
|
16 |
|
22: Diversionary activity [NiPI] |
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
Grand Total |
1320 |
1701 |
1593 |
1885 |
2155 |
166 |
8930 |
Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete however please note that 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.