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Q1. How many burglaries were reported to your force in December in each of the past five calendar years (2021, 2020, 2019, 2018 and 2017).?
Q2. Of these, how many were committed on the 25th December?
Q3. Of the burglaries reported in December, how many were subsequently closed without a suspect being identified?
Please could you provide this information broken down by calendar year.
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Q1. Please see the below table which shows the number of burglaries reported to North Yoekshire Police in December 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 & 2021 as well as the number of burglaries which took place on December 25th of the same years.
|
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
Total |
December excl 25th |
314 |
392 |
302 |
208 |
141 |
1357 |
December 25th |
7 |
4 |
0 |
3 |
2 |
16 |
Q2. Please see the below table which shows the number of burglaries reported to North Yoekshire Police in December 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 & 2021 which were closed without a suspect being identified.
|
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
14-Evidential difficulties victim based – suspect not identified |
6 |
12 |
5 |
7 |
6 |
18-Investigation complete - no suspect identified |
264 |
310 |
242 |
149 |
96 |
Total |
270 |
322 |
247 |
156 |
102 |
Q3. Of the burglaries committed on 25th December 12 were subsequently closed without a suspect being identified, 5 in 2017, 3 in 2018, 2 in 2020 and 2 in 2021.
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