Fuel Thefts from Vehicles and Garage Forecourts 2020 to 2021
Keywords
Fuel, Thefts, Vehicles, Garage, Forecourts, Diesel, Petrol, Making, Off, Without, Payment.
Publication Number
PUB 1381
FOI Reference Number
16575
Request Title
Fuel Thefts from Vehicles and Garage Forecourts 2020 to 2021
Date Range
January 2020 to December 2021
Information Requested
How many fuel thefts were reported in each month of 2020 and 2021 from:
a) another person’s vehicle (theft of fuel from a vehicle)
b) from a forecourt (where a driver refuels without paying)
Disclosure with Exemptions
Full Disclosure
Information Correct as at
06 January 2022
Date of Disclosure
24 January 2021
Related Documents/Links
N/A
FOI 16575 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 06 January 2022.
Date Range: January 2020 to December 2021.
Data: A keyword search for ‘Fuel’, ‘Diesel’ and ‘Petrol’ has been made in the Initial Modus Operandi (MO) Field for fuel theft offences. 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.
| Year | Month | Making off Without Payment* | Theft from Motor Vehicle* |
| 2020 | Jan | 90 | 37 |
| Feb | 90 | 30 | |
| Mar | 81 | 82 | |
| Apr | 44 | 32 | |
| May | 62 | 28 | |
| Jun | 62 | 47 | |
| Jul | 70 | 46 | |
| Aug | 69 | 18 | |
| Sep | 83 | 14 | |
| Oct | 65 | 11 | |
| Nov | 53 | 16 | |
| Dec | 58 | 9 | |
| 2021 | Jan | 32 | 10 |
| Feb | 43 | 25 | |
| Mar | 47 | 15 | |
| Apr | 57 | 31 | |
| May | 71 | 7 | |
| Jun | 84 | 27 | |
| Jul | 62 | 17 | |
| Aug | 85 | 7 | |
| Sep | 63 | 17 | |
| Oct | 87 | 40 | |
| Nov | 80 | 30 | |
| Dec | 98 | 9 | |
| *where at least one of the following terms is included in the MO - Fuel, Diesel, Petrol | |||
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.