Crimes at pharmacies
Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FOI/25/009101/H
Version Date: 05/12/2025
The Performance & Analysis Department has provided the following information:
Data Source:
Crime information system – Niche
Limitations/Caveats:
Data is reliant on the accurate recording of the location type. If an address is recorded, but the location type is not completed, offences will be missed.
For pharmacies located within another building (such as a superstore), there is a chance the location of the offence is recorded as the superstore and not the pharmacy. Such offences will be missed from the data.
- Please tell me how many crimes were committed on pharmacy or chemist premises in each of the following years:
a) 2024/2025
b) 2023/2024
c) 2022/2023
2. Please break the data in question 1. down for the different classifications of crime as stated by the Home Office for each of the following three years:
a) 2024/2025
b) 2023/2024
c) 2022/2023
3. If not included in the response to question 2, please specify how many crimes involved
• Theft
• Shoplifting
• Burglary
• Violence against the person
• Racism
Please provide the data for each of the following three years:
a) 2024/2025
b) 2023/2024
c) 2022/2023
|
Home Office Group Description |
2022/23 |
2023/24 |
2024/25 |
Grand Total |
|
Assault with Injury |
1 |
1 |
4 |
6 |
|
Assault without Injury |
3 |
9 |
8 |
20 |
|
Assault without Injury on a Constable |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
Attempted Burglary - Business and Community |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
|
Burglary - Business and Community |
2 |
3 |
4 |
9 |
|
Criminal Damage to a Building - Business and Community |
1 |
6 |
3 |
10 |
|
Forgery or use of Drug Prescription |
0 |
0 |
4 |
4 |
|
Harassment |
1 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
|
Making, Supplying or Possessing Articles for Use in Fraud |
1 |
0 |
2 |
3 |
|
Malicious Communications |
0 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
|
Other Criminal Damage |
2 |
4 |
4 |
10 |
|
Other Forgery |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
|
Other Offences against the State or Public Order |
1 |
3 |
0 |
4 |
|
Other Theft |
2 |
0 |
4 |
6 |
|
Possession of Article with Blade or Point |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
|
Public Fear, Alarm or Distress |
3 |
11 |
10 |
24 |
|
Racially or Religiously Aggravated Public Fear, Alarm or Distress |
0 |
1 |
4 |
5 |
|
Robbery of Business Property |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
|
Shoplifting |
68 |
179 |
314 |
561 |
|
Theft by an Employee |
2 |
4 |
0 |
6 |
|
Theft from the Person |
1 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
|
Threat or Possession with Intent to Commit Criminal Damage |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
|
Grand Total |
89 |
228 |
364 |
681 |