FOI date
08/2023
FOI reference
FOI 1722707/23

• How many watches were recorded as stolen in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022? Please provide figures for each year. 
• What was the combined value of these watches? Please provide figures for each year. 
• How many watches have been recorded as stolen in the first six months of 2023 – 1st January 2023 to 30th June 2023?
• What was the combined valued of these watches? 
• What percentage/number of watches recorded as stolen in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 were recovered? 

The table below represents the number of WATCH property items linked as STOLEN to crimes recorded during the period which were not subsequently cancelled.
WATCH includes; Wrist watch, pocket watch and clocks/watch.
One recorded crime may have multiple property items linked

Stolen watches, 01/01/2019 - 30/06/2023

Stolen watches

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023

Number stolen

1845

918

680

811

381

Value stolen

£1,900,210.49

£901,883.19

£623,193.39

£1,175,270.69

£441,744.99

Number recovered

37

21

20

24

8

• What percentage/number of watches reported stolen in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 involved some form of violence against the owner/person wearing the watch? 
• What percentage/number of watches reported stolen in the first six months of 2023 involved some form of violence against owner/person wearing the watch? 
• What percentage/number of watches reported stolen in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 have resulted in the fatality of the victim?

 

The table below represents the number of crimes recorded during the period which were not subsequently cancelled and had one or more WATCH property item linked as STOLEN

Crimes involving a watch being stolen, 01/01/2019 - 30/06/2023

Offence group

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023

Arson and criminal damage

2

1

1

0

0

Burglary

771

382

227

301

140

Miscellaneous crimes against society

3

1

1

1

1

Public order offences

0

0

0

0

1

Robbery

60

48

43

54

25

Sexual offences

0

1

1

0

0

Theft

260

171

193

208

108

Vehicle offences

71

37

48

64

27

Violence against the person

14

4

12

14

5

 - of which, Homicide

0

0

0

0

0

Total recorded crime

1181

645

526

642

307

This information may be subject to further investigation, reclassification and cancelling and will therefore change over time. Crime classifications based on Home Office Counting Rules for Recorded Crime https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/counting-rules-for-recorded-crime