Asian Gold

Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FOI/25/008766/M

Version Date: 23/09/2025

The Performance & Analysis Department has provided the following information:

Data Source:

Force Crime Recording System Niche

Data Processing:

QlikSense report MO Text Search filtered on

Occurrence is a Crime: Yes

Occurrence Created Date: 01/01/2020 - 26/08/2025

MO Filters

Format: Free Text

Sub Type: Free Text Keywords: "asian gold" and "op merida"

QlikSense report Crime and Outcomes

Notifiable Crime: Yes

Include No Crime: No

Crimed Date: 01/04/2020 - 26/08/2025

Summary and MO searched for: "asian gold" and "op merida"

Qlikview UNIFI - Crime and Enquiries Freetext Search 2020-2022

Crimed Date: 01/01/2020 - 14/11/2022

Free Text Keywords: *asian gold* and *op merida*

Caveats/Limitations

• No crimes/Cancelled Crimes included
• The presence of a keyword only indicates its presence in the MO or Summary text and not its relevance to a crime

In your police force area, how many incidents of "Asian gold theft" have taken place in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 to date.

To clarify: "Asian gold theft" is the theft of gold from Asian families. Criminals are targeting Asian families knowing that many have gold, for cultural reasons.

Please could you specify the number of incidents, and the value of gold stolen if available, per year?

• 2020 - 4
• 2021 - 4
• 2022 - 11
• 2023 - 0
• 2024 - 1
• 2025 (01/01/2025 - 26/08/2025) – 0

No information held is regarding the value of gold stolen. This information is not recorded.

Can you break it down by category too if possible for 1) theft from a person 2) residential 3) commercial