FOI December Burglaries (0669-2022/23)
Request
Q1. How many burglaries were committed in the month of December in each of the past three calendar years (2021, 2020, 2019)? Of these, how many were committed on 25th December in each of those years?
Q2. Of the burglaries committed in December of each of those three years, how many were subsequently closed without a suspect being identified? Please could you provide this information broken down by year.
Q3. How many burglaries committed on 25th December were subsequently closed without a suspect being identified? Please could you provide this information broken down by year.
Response
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Q1. Please see the below table which shows the number of burglaries reported to North Yoekshire Police in December 2019, 2020 & 2021 as well as the number of burglaries which took place on December 25th of the same years.
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|
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
Total |
|
December excl 25th |
302 |
208 |
141 |
651 |
|
December 25th |
0 |
3 |
2 |
5 |
Q2. Please see the below table which shows the number of burglaries reported to North Yoekshire Police in December 2019, 2020 & 2021 which were closed without a suspect being identified.
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|
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
|
14-Evidential difficulties victim based – suspect not identified |
5 |
7 |
6 |
|
18-Investigation complete - no suspect identified |
242 |
149 |
96 |
|
Total |
247 |
156 |
102 |
Q3. Of the burglaries committed on 25th December 4 were subsequently closed without a suspect being identified, 2 in 2020 and 2 in 2021.
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