FOI 497/25

REQUEST

1. From January 2020 to January 2025, broken down by calendar year, how many MOWP offences has your force recorded?
2. From January 2020 to January 2025, broken down by calendar year, how many MOWP offences has your force recorded with ‘petrol filling station’ under the tertiary address? If is possible/helpful to retrieving records, please perform a second search for this data using a keyword search with the words “petrol station” and “drive off” and “forecourt”, detailing the results of this on a year-by-year basis from Jan 2020 to Jan 2025.
3. Please provide a resolution clear-up report for the offences detailed in question 2.

RESPONSE

A search has been conducted for all crimes recorded under the Home Office (HO) offence code ‘53/25: Making off without payment’ between 1^st January 2020 and 1^st January 2025. This search retrieved 3,544 results.

Question 1

Question 2

The data from Q1 has been filtered by tertiary address ‘petrol filling station’. We are unable to break the data down  further as we are unable to perform a keyword search using this data set.

Please note that the data for Q’s 1 and 2 have been retrieved by searching on the ‘Crime Date’ and not the ‘Reported Date’. Therefore, these figures relate to occurrences that were recorded as a crime between 1^st January 2020 and the 31^{st of} December 2024 and not when the occurrences were first reported.

Question 3

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 interest

Please note that the outcome ‘00: Not recognised as an official outcome’ includes crimes that have been Finalised and Case Screened, Investigated at PSC, Allocated and Finalised and Under Investigation.

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.