Crimes in Pharmacies
Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FOI/25/008846/L
Version Date: 09/10/2025
- 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 tell me how many of the crimes committed on pharmacy or chemist premises involved shoplifting for each of the following years?
a) 2024/2025
b) 2023/2024
c) 2022/2023
3. Please tell me how many of the crimes committed on pharmacy or chemist premises involved violence or assault for each of the following years?
a) 2024/2025
b) 2023/2024
c) 2022/2023
4. Please tell me how many of the crimes committed on pharmacy or chemist premises involved racism for each of the following years?
a) 2024/2025
b) 2023/2024
c) 2022/2023
5. Please tell me how many of the crimes committed on pharmacy or chemist premises involved threatening behaviour for each of the following years?
a) 2024/2025
b) 2023/2024
c) 2022/2023
6. Please tell me how many of the crimes committed on pharmacy or chemist premises involved weight loss drugs such as Wegovy and Mounjaro for each of the following years?
a) 2024/2025
b) 2023/2024
c) 2022/2023
The Performance & Analysis Department has provided the following information:
Data Source
Crimes recorded on crime information system – NICHE
Data Processing:
Qliksense Crimes & Outcomes Report
Filtered on Crimed Date: 01/04/2022 -31/03/2025
Filtered on MO Location: All "Shop - Pharmacy"
Caveats/Limitations
- No crimes/Cancelled Crimes excluded
- The presence of a keyword only indicates its presence in the MO or Summary text and not its relevance to a crime.
- Restricted Crimes Excluded
- Performance and Analysis are unable to search the Occurrence Enquiry Logs (OEL's) as there is no Qliksense equivalent of the Crime and Enquiries FreeText Search report after 14/11/2022.
- There is no MO Location for "Chemist"
- Threatening Behaviour is an offence under Section 4 of the Public order Act 1986 in England and Wales. There are 2 offence descriptions listed below:
- Distribute / display visible representation with intent to cause fear of / to provoke violence
- Use threatening / abusive / insulting words / behaviour with intent to cause fear of / provoke unlawful violence
Data
Please note that a keyword search for ‘Wegovy’ and ‘Mounjaro’ was completed in order to answer question 6. This produced a nil return.
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Q1-Q5: Between 01/04/2022 -31/03/2025 The number of crimes committed on pharmacy or chemist premises in each of the following years by requested breakdown, Home Office Group Description and Financial Year. |
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Requested Breakdown |
Home Office Group Description |
2022/23 |
2023/24 |
2024/25 |
Total |
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Racism (Hate Crime) |
Public Fear, Alarm or Distress |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
Racially or Religiously Aggravated Public Fear, Alarm or Distress |
0 |
1 |
3 |
4 |
|
|
Violence or Assault |
Assault with Injury |
1 |
1 |
4 |
6 |
|
Assault without Injury |
3 |
9 |
8 |
20 |
|
|
Assault without Injury on a Constable |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
|
Robbery of Business Property |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
|
|
Shoplifting |
Shoplifting |
68 |
179 |
314 |
561 |
|
Other |
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 |
2 |
6 |
5 |
13 |
|
|
Racially or Religiously Aggravated Public Fear, Alarm or Distress |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
|
|
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 |
|
|
Threatening Behaviour |
Public Fear, Alarm or Distress |
0 |
5 |
5 |
10 |
|
Total |
|
89 |
228 |
364 |
681 |