FOI 441778

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NO: 441778

I write in connection with your request for information which was received on 10^th November 2025. Please find below the response to your request:

1. 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:
3. a) 2024/2025
   b) 2023/2024
   c) 2022/2023
4. 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:

1. a) 2024/2025
   b) 2023/2024
   c) 2022/2023

Reply

West Mercia Police have conducted searches and hold the requested information.

Caveat: Whilst there is a location type field in our crime management it is not mandatory and not regularly used, we have therefore used a combination of the location type and keywords within the full crime location field. If the premises is a Chemist or Pharmacy but does not include either word within its name then it will not be included in this return, eg a pharmacy within a supermarket.

1. 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:
3. 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

Caveat: In regards to question 3, Theft, Burglary and Violence Against Persons are all primary Offence Groups so are included in the tables for question 2.

Shoplifting is a Sub Group, included within Theft and Racism is a marker which can be added to any crime and therefore could be within any of the Primary Offence Groups. Therefore, the theft total in question 2 includes the shoplifting total in question 3, and the racism offences are also included in question 2.