FOI 395269
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NO: 395269
I write in connection with your request for information which was received on 18th March 2025. Please find below the response to your request:
The number of thefts in pubs and on pub premises that occurred annually going back to 2018 - so one figure for each year.
Reply
Your request for information has been considered in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (“the Act”), and I am not obliged to provide the information requested.
S.12(1) of the Act states that a public authority is not obliged to comply with a request for information if the authority estimates that the cost of complying with the request would exceed the “appropriate limit”. For police forces in England and Wales, the "appropriate limit" is £450 or 18 hours of work as set by the Freedom of Information (Fees and Appropriate Limit) Regulations 2004.
The information you have requested is not available in a readily retrievable format. There are too many records. In order to ascertain whether the information you have requested is held would take in excess of 18 hours as each record would have to be checked individually.
In accordance with s.17(5) of the Act, this acts as a Refusal Notice.
Under s.16 of the Act I have a duty to provide advice and assistance in relation to your request.
However, In accordance with Section 16 of the Act I have a duty to provide advice and assistance in relation to your request. You may wish to refine and resubmit your request to receive part of the information. For example we may be able to supply the information you have requested for a specific public house or key words to search, subject to any exemptions being engaged
Please contact us again should you wish to submit a request for alternative/reduced information
NOTE: There is not a specific offence title for theft from/within a public house and whilst there is a field for “location type” on our crime management system however this is not routinely used and cannot be relied up.