Crimes in pharmacies
Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FIN/25/3951
Version Date: 11/11/2025
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
1.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
2. Please break the data in question 1. down for the different classifications of crime as stated by the Home Office for each of the following three years:
a) 2024/2025
b) 2023/2024
c) 2022/2023
3. If not included in the response to question 2, please specify how many crimes involved
•Theft
•Shoplifting
•Burglary
•Violence against the person
•Racism
Please provide the data for each of the following three years:
a) 2024/2025
b) 2023/2024
c) 2022/2023
Please see below all crimes reported at pharmacies, broken down by SC Description
|
SC Descriptions |
22/23 |
23/24 |
24/25 |
Total |
|
ABH on a Constable |
1 |
1 |
||
|
Assault by beating |
1 |
2 |
2 |
5 |
|
Assault occasioning actual bodily harm |
2 |
3 |
2 |
7 |
|
Burglary - Business & Community (Unconnected Building) |
1 |
1 |
2 |
|
|
Burglary - Business and Community |
9 |
8 |
10 |
27 |
|
Burglary – Outbuilding Business & Community |
3 |
3 |
||
|
Common assault (S39) and assault without injury |
6 |
3 |
3 |
12 |
|
Criminal damage Other |
1 |
1 |
||
|
Criminal damage to a building other than a dwelling |
1 |
1 |
2 |
|
|
Harassment - put in fear of violence |
1 |
1 |
2 |
|
|
Harassment without violence |
1 |
1 |
||
|
Make a false prescription for a scheduled drug - Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981 |
1 |
1 |
||
|
Public Order - S4 POA Fear or provocation of violence |
2 |
2 |
4 |
|
|
Public Order - S4a Causing intentional harassment, alarm or distress |
3 |
6 |
4 |
13 |
|
Racially or religiously aggravated intentional harassment, alarm or distress |
1 |
2 |
1 |
4 |
|
Send communication / article of an indecent / offensive nature |
1 |
1 |
||
|
Sexual assault of a female 13 or over by penetration |
1 |
1 |
||
|
Sexual assault on a female |
1 |
1 |
2 |
|
|
Stalking involving fear of violence |
1 |
1 |
||
|
Stalking without fear / alarm / distress |
1 |
1 |
||
|
Theft by employee |
1 |
1 |
||
|
Theft from a motor vehicle |
3 |
1 |
4 |
|
|
Theft from shops and stalls (Shoplifting) |
87 |
86 |
138 |
311 |
|
Theft from the person of another |
1 |
1 |
2 |
|
|
Theft of pedal cycle |
1 |
1 |
||
|
Theft or unauthorised taking of a motor vehicle |
1 |
1 |
||
|
Theft other |
2 |
2 |
1 |
5 |
|
Threat to damage / destroy property |
1 |
1 |
||
|
Threaten a person with a blade / sharply pointed article in a public place |
1 |
1 |
||
|
Grand Total |
119 |
129 |
170 |
418 |