Weight Loss Injections

Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FOI/25/007884/N

Version Date: 09/05/2025

The Performance & Analysis Department have provided the following information.

Please could you confirm how many crimes have been reported to your force that mention Ozempic, Mountjaro, Semaglutide, Saxenda, weight-loss injections, weight-loss jabs or a combination of these in the ‘modus operandi’ for each of the following time frames:

•           1st March 2020 to 28th February 2021
•           1st March 2021 to 28th February 2022
•           1st March 2022 to 28th February 2023
•           1st March 2013 to 29th February 2024
•           1st March 2024 to 28th February 2025

Where possible, please also provide details of the alleged offence in each case.

Data Source

Crimes recorded on crime information system - NICHE

Data Processing:

Qliksense Crimes & Outcomes Report

Filtered on Crimed Dates: 01/04/2020 - 28/02/2025

Notifiable Crime Only: Yes

Filtered on all Offence Groups

Freetext search for

("*Ozempic*" or "*Mountjaro*" or "*Semaglutide*" or "*Saxenda*")

("*weight-loss injections*" or "*weight-loss jabs*")

Qliksense MO Text Search Report

Format: Free Text

MO Date Created: 01/03/2020 - 28/02/2025

Sub Type: Free Text Keywords

("*Ozempic*" or "*Mountjaro*" or "*Semaglutide*" or "*Saxenda*")

("*weight-loss injections*" or "*weight-loss jabs*")

Nil Return

Qlikview UNIFI - Crime and Enquiries Freetext Search Reports 2020 - 2022

Date Created: 01/03/2020 - 15/11/2022

Freetext search for

("*Ozempic*" or "*Mountjaro*" or "*Semaglutide*" or "*Saxenda*")

("*weight-loss injections*" or "*weight-loss jabs*")

Nil Return

Caveats/Limitations

Data prior to 15/11/2022 may be limited due to migration from Unifi

Qlikview UNIFI - Crime and Enquiries Freetext Search Reports: Data not available in these reports after 15/11/2022

The presence of a keyword only indicates its presence in the MO or Summary text and not its relevance to a crime

Data

In the timeframe provided there was one instance where ‘weight-loss injection’ was mentioned in the MO text. It occurred in 2022.