FOI 608/25 Attempted Burglary with Blowtorch
Date: 25/06/25
Enquiry Reference: 608-25
I write in connection with regards to your Freedom of Information request. Below is your request and our response.
For each of the past ten years (2015-2025) what is the number of attempted burglary reports involving use of a blowtorch?
The analyst has looked for attempted burglaries in the timeframe requested. They have also searched for the terms ‘blow torch’ and ’blowtorch’ within the crime remarks to find these specific crimes.
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2017 |
2019 |
2023 |
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28F - Attempted Burglary Residential |
1 |
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28J - Attempted Residential Burglary of a Home |
1 |
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30D - Attempted burglary business and community |
1 |
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Grand Total |
1 |
1 |
1 |
Please note although every effort is made to ensure that the data provided by Cleveland Police is accurate and complete, our systems are designed primarily for the management of individual cases and not for the purposes of providing data to answer specific FOI enquiries
Due to this data being retrieved by a keyword search, then in one crime the blowtorch was not used as one. In the other two crimes then it was suspected that this was the item therefore 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.
Having made enquiries within the Force above is all the information we hold. Please note that all statistical data supplied in relation to Freedom of Information requests is a snapshot of data held at the time the request was received by the Freedom of Information office and is subject to constant change/updates.
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Yours sincerely
Information Rights Decision Maker