Supermarket shoplifting

Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FOI/24/6370

Version Date: 24/04/2024

The Performance & Analysis Department have provided the following information.

Data Source

Crimes recorded on crime information system - NICHE 

Data Processing:  

Cancelled and Non notifiable crimes excluded 

Qliksense Report: MO Text Search

Filtered by dates requested:

Offence Group: Shoplifting

Keyword search: (*Tesco* or *Sainsburys* or *Waitrose* or *Morrisons* or *Asda* or *Lidl* or *Aldi*)

Data Limitations

The data is limited to the key word searches of the supermarkets mentioned in the data processing.   

Please disclose the number of callouts you received for supermarket shoplifting between January 1st 2023 and December 31st 2023, by month.

If possible, please also disclose the number of callouts you received for supermarket shoplifting between January 1st 2022 and December 31st 2022, by month, for comparative purposes.

The following table shows the number of shoplifting offences, where at least one of the key supermarkets have been mentioned within the MO text.