Crimes in Pharmacies
Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FIN/25/003725/J
Version Date: 09/10/2025
The Performance Analysis Department has provided the following information.
Searches were completed in Niche for crimes with one or more of the following criteria:
- Location Subtype of ‘Pharmacy’
- Occurrence Address Common Name containing the keyword ‘pharmacy’ or ‘chemist’
- Occurrence Address Building Name containing the keyword ‘pharmacy’ or ‘chemist’
A filter has been applied to the data to try and capture only those with the address link classification as the occurrence address, however, please note that this is not always reliable and some crimes will include the location of a pharmacy as this may have been where a suspect was apprehended, or used as a location for the police to attend but may not be where the offence took place. Additionally, this could be the reporting person’s location.
- Please tell me how many crimes were committed on pharmacy or chemist premises in each of the following years:
a) 2024/2025
b) 2023/2024
c) 2022/2023
|
Financial Year |
Count |
|
22/23 |
119 |
|
23/24 |
129 |
|
24/25 |
170 |
|
Total |
418 |
- Please tell me how many of the crimes committed on pharmacy or chemist premises involved shoplifting for each of the following years?
a) 2024/2025
b) 2023/2024
c) 2022/2023
This includes crimes with a Crimsec 3 Description of 'shoplifting'.
|
Financial Year |
Count |
|
22/23 |
87 |
|
23/24 |
86 |
|
24/25 |
138 |
|
Total |
311 |
- Please tell me how many of the crimes committed on pharmacy or chemist premises involved violence or assault for each of the following years?
a) 2024/2025
b) 2023/2024
c) 2022/2023
This data includes all crimes with a 'Violence Against the Person' Main Crime Group, broken down into Crimsec 3 Description.
|
Main Crime Group |
22/23 |
23/24 |
24/25 |
Total |
|
Violence Against the Person |
11 |
12 |
8 |
31 |
|
Assault with Injury |
2 |
3 |
2 |
7 |
|
Assault with injury on a Constable |
1 |
1 |
||
|
Assault without Injury |
7 |
5 |
5 |
17 |
|
Harassment |
1 |
2 |
3 |
|
|
Malicious Communications |
1 |
1 |
||
|
Stalking |
1 |
1 |
2 |
|
|
Total |
11 |
12 |
8 |
31 |
- Please tell me how many of the crimes committed on pharmacy or chemist premises involved racism for each of the following years?
a) 2024/2025
b) 2023/2024
c) 2022/2023
This data includes crimes with the Crimsec 3 Group of 105B, 58J, 8M, 8P, 9B, or SC Hate Crime field 'Racial' (all data returned has a Crimsec 3 Description of 'Racially or religiously aggravated public fear, alarm or distress'.
|
Financial Year |
Count |
|
22/23 |
1 |
|
23/24 |
2 |
|
24/25 |
1 |
|
Total |
4 |
- Please tell me how many of the crimes committed on pharmacy or chemist premises involved threatening behaviour for each of the following years?
a) 2024/2025
b) 2023/2024
c) 2022/2023
No information held.
There is no manner of recording threatening behaviour. It would fall potentially under harassment or malicious communications, the breakdown of which is included in the table provided for question 3.
- Please tell me how many of the crimes committed on pharmacy or chemist premises involved weight loss drugs such as Wegovy and Mounjaro for each of the following years?
a) 2024/2025
b) 2023/2024
c) 2022/2023
Nil return.