Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA)

Thank you for your email received today in which you make a request for
information that Northumbria Police may hold in accordance with the
Freedom Of Information Act 2000

We are in the process of dealing with your request and a response should
be provided to you by 18/09/2018 which is in accordance with the
legislation.

We have interpreted your request as below.  If this is not correct please
advise by return.

With regards to shop-lifting in the Metro Centre, Gateshead.

1. How many reports of shop lifting have been made in this shopping centre
each financial year since 2012/13.

2. How many of these reports lead to charges.

3.  Which three stores have made the most reports in the last financial
year and how many did they make?

Yours sincerely

Information Management Unit

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Provision of information held by Northumbria Police made under the Freedom
of Information Act 2000 (the 'Act')

Thank you for your e mail dated 17 August 2018 in which you made a request
for access to certain information which may be held by Northumbria Police.

As you may be aware the purpose of the Act is to allow a general right of
access to information held at the time of a request, by a Public Authority
(including the Police), subject to certain limitations and exemptions.

You asked:

With regards to shop-lifting in the Metro centre.

1. How many reports of shop lifting have been made in this shopping centre
each financial year since 2012/13.

2. How many of these reports lead to charges.

3.  Which three stores have made the most reports in the last financial
year and how many did they make?

We have now had the opportunity to fully consider your request and I
provide a response for your attention.

Following receipt of your request, searches were conducted with the
Corporate Development Department of Northumbria Police. I can confirm that
the information you have requested is held by Northumbria Police.

I am able to disclose the located information to you as follows with the
below being noted.

Data has been collated by a search of all shoplifting offences recorded
between 01/04/2012 and 31/03/2018 where the address field contains "metro
centre" or "metrocentre." Crimes included are those where the location is
within the metro centre or within the metro retail park. Stores outside of
the Metro Centre/Retail Park such as Ikea, Pets at Home, Asda etc are not
included in the result.

As the address field is a manual entry field, the way addresses are
recorded may vary. If the address does not include the  terms "metro
centre" or "metrocentre.",  it will not have been included in the results.

With the above in mind the response to your queries is as below.

1.

2012/13 - 180

2013/14 - 169

2014/15 - 154

2015/16 - 143

2016/17 - 196

2017/18 - 175

2.

2012/13 - 66

2013/14 - 73

2014/15 - 73

2015/16 - 75

2016/17 - 84

2017/18 - 82

3.

Debenhams               25

House of Fraser         22

Primark                      16

Due to the different methods of recording information across 43 forces, a
specific response from one constabulary should not be seen as an
indication of what information could be supplied (within cost) by another.
Systems used for recording these figures are not generic, nor are the
procedures used locally in capturing the data. For this reason responses
between forces may differ, and should not be used for comparative
purposes.

The information we have supplied to you is likely to contain intellectual
property rights of Northumbria Police. Your use of the information must be
strictly in accordance with the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 (as
amended) or such other applicable legislation. In particular, you must not
re-use this information for any commercial purpose.

You may be interested to know that Northumbria Police routinely publish
information via the Disclosure Log. The aim of the Disclosure Log is to
promote openness and transparency by voluntarily placing information into
the public arena.

The Disclosure Log contains copies of some of the information that has
been disclosed by Northumbria Police in response to requests made under
the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Whilst it is not possible to publish all responses we will endeavour to
publish those where we feel that the information disclosed is in the wider
public interest.

The Disclosure Log will be updated once responses have been sent to the
requester.

I have provided the relevant link below.

[1]http://www.northumbria.police.uk/freedom...

How to complain

If you are unhappy with our decision or do not consider that we have
handled your request properly and we are unable to resolve this issue
informally, you are entitled to make a formal complaint to us under our
complaints procedure, attached below

[2]http://www.northumbria.police.uk/freedom...

If you are still unhappy after we have investigated your complaint and
reported to you the outcome, you may complain directly to the Information
Commissioner’s Office and request that they investigate to ascertain
whether we have dealt with your request in accordance with the Act.

Yours sincerely

Michael Cleugh

Data Protection and Disclosure Advisor

Direct Dial: 0191 2956941

[NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED]

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