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Incidents, Postage, Theft, Monthly, Breakdown, Reported, Calendar Years
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Please note that this information is correct as at 30 April 2021 and may be subject to change. Essex Police aim to review and update this publication annually. As with all publications of information by Essex Police, please note caveats may apply regarding the accuracy of data.
Reported Incidents of Postage Theft
2018-2020
Post Items Intercepted and Seized/Drugs Intercepted in the Mail
The number of reported incidents of postage theft broken down by month for the 2018 to 2020 calendar years:
Month |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
---|---|---|---|
January |
22 |
34 |
13 |
February |
21 |
32 |
10 |
March |
24 |
21 |
13 |
April |
16 |
18 |
6 |
May |
22 |
12 |
23 |
June |
17 |
13 |
18 |
July |
12 |
9 |
15 |
August |
24 |
16 |
24 |
September |
17 |
7 |
21 |
October |
22 |
14 |
21 |
November |
20 |
9 |
47 |
December |
15 |
26 |
95 |
Total |
232 |
211 |
306 |
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.