Christmas residential burglaries

Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FOI/26/10491

Version Date: 22/09/2026

The Performance & Analysis Department has provided the following information: 

Data Source

Niche and Storm Databases 

Data Searches

Offence Group: Burglary – Residential for Q1 and 2

Flag of ‘Domestic Abuse: Yes’ for Q3 

Data Caveats / Limitations:                           

• A large number of crimes are generated as a result of reported incidents, therefore there may be some duplication whereby those incidents have led to a crime report.
• There is no 'Incident Occurred' or adjacent date or time field within our Incident report, therefore data is given based on the Incident Created date.
• For all crime data questions, 'Date' is referencing the 'Date Committed From' field, this is regardless of the 'Date Committed To' field.                                                                 

Please provide the following for each of the years 2021 to 2025, based on the offence date (not the recorded date):

1. The number of residential burglaries recorded on (a) 24 December and on (b) 25 December, shown separately.

2. Of those, for each day the number with an outcome of (a) charged or summonsed, and (b) the number closed as investigation complete, no suspect identified.

24^th December

25^th December

3. The number of domestic abuse-related incidents and crimes recorded on 25 December (combined, or separately if that is how your system holds them).

25^th December