Deliveroo Crimes in 2021

Keywords

Deliveroo, MO, Modus operandi, Theft, Recorded, Offence, Athena, Delivery, Stolen, Driver.

Publication Number

PUB 1472

FOI Reference Number

17032

Request Title

Deliveroo Crimes in 2021

Date Range

2021

Information Requested

1) In the 2021 calendar year, how many crimes were logged by your force where Deliveroo was recorded as being an element in the offence? [Note: I would hope that this could be achieved by a computer search on the MO of crimes for the word/s "deliveroo", "deliver roo".]

2) Please provide me with a table showing a breakdown of the crimes from Question 1 that are ‘linked’ to Deliveroo by its mention in the MO.

3) Taking a start date of January 2021 please provide me with copies of the first 10 MOs that mention Deliveroo.

[Note: To avoid falling into an exemption I am content for the names, ages, geography or any other detail to be redacted to allow for the disclosure of the incident and how it relates to Deliveroo.]

Disclosure with Exemptions

Full Disclosure

Information Correct as at

16 May 2022

Date of Disclosure

20 May 2022

Related Documents/Links

N/A

FOI 17032 Response

Having completed enquiries within Essex Police in respect of Section 1(1)(a), Essex Police does hold information relating to your request, Essex Police can confirm in respect of Section 1(1)(b) the following data:

Caveats: 

The data is correct as at 16 May 2022.

This data was obtained from the Athena Crime Universe.

The Initial Modus Operandi (MO) Field was selected to have a ‘MATCHES PATTERN’ to the options: ‘Deliveroo’ and ‘Deliver roo’.  Please note that any keyword search may not be entirely accurate and any results would not necessarily answer your submission, and, therefore, could be highly inaccurate and misleading.

HMIC Crime Tree Level 3 was used to specify the category of Crime Offence.

Time Period:  01 January 2021 to 31 December 2021 (Calendar year 2021).

In the 2021 calendar year, a total of 9 crimes were logged by Essex Police where ‘Deliveroo’ was recorded as being an element in the offence.

The below table shows copies of the MO’s that mention ‘Deliveroo’ recorded in the calendar year of 2021:

Crime Offence Type	MO	Count of Crimes
All Other Theft Offences	Suspect Unknown Has Removed The Victims Deliveroo Delivery Bag From Bike Which Had Left In A Building Whilst Made A Delivery.	1
All Other Theft Offences	Suspect Unknown Has Stolen A Smart Tablet From Which Belongs To The Company Deliveroo.	1
All Other Theft Offences	Suspect Unknown Has Stolen The Victims Deliveroo Bag.	1
All Other Theft Offences	Suspect Unknown Has Stolen The Victims Electric Bike Whilst The Victim Was Picking Up An Order For Deliveroo	1
Public Order Offences	Delivery Driver From Deliveroo Having Delivered Food To The Victim Then Returned Demanding A Number And Threatened To Take The Food Back Not Allowing The Victim To Close The Door Which Caused Alarm And Distress	1
Shoplifting	Suspect Unknown Detained By Staff At Location After Posing As A Deliveroo Driver Collecting Bags Of Food For Customers But Not Authenticating This On Mobile App And Customers Not Receiving Their Items	1
Violence Without Injury	Suspect Named Has Ordered Some  From The Victim, Which The Victim Delivered Personally. Suspect Has Then Stated That  Didnt Receive Them And Therefore  Money Was Refunded By Deliveroo Meaning The Victim Is At Financial Loss. Suspect Has Then Written A Derogatory About The Victim Calling  A  And Stating  Are Rank.	1
Violence Without Injury	Suspect Named Is A Neighbour. Suspect Has Cctv Cameras To The Front And Rear Of Their Property Which Overlooks The Victims Property. Suspect Has Been Recording The Victim And  Coming And Going From The House, And Noting Whenever The Victim Has Deliveries Or Visitors. Suspect Has Apparently Reported The Victim To  , Because  Was Having Deliveroo Deliveries. The Victims Has Health And Support Needs, And Is Now Afraid To Leave The House Or Play In The Garden, And Covers  Face Whenever  Leaves So That The Neighbour Cannot Film  Face. These Incidents Are Causing The Victim Harassment.	1
Violence Without Injury	Suspect Unidentified Is Sending Deliveroo Takeaways To The Victims Address Causing Harassment	1
Total		9

 

No further information will be provided by virtue of the following exemption:

Section 40 Personal Information

Information disclosed under FOI is effectively released to the wider world or into the public domain. Consequently, in cases where the public request information related to individuals, it would be very rare for a Police Force to release such information under the terms of the FOIA. Individuals would not expect that their personal data would be disclosed in response to a request under the FOI Act and so disclosure would breach the GDPR data protection principles. Information should not be disclosed if it would contravene any of the principles as defined under Article 5 of GDPR.

Disclosure would only be made if to do so would be fair, lawful (principle a) and if it would meet one of the conditions in Schedule 2 of the DPA (and in the case of sensitive personal data, a condition in Schedule 3) any individual would not expect identifiable details to be disclosed and thus the exemption at Section 40 of the FOI legislation is engaged.

Every effort is made to ensure that the data provided by Essex Police is accurate and complete.  However, Essex Police systems are designed primarily for the management of individual cases and not for the purposes of providing data to answer specific FOI enquiries.  Please note although data can be extracted from a number of sources via database queries, the results may be subject to inaccuracies.  Care should be taken to understand our return when considering the interpretation or further use of the data.