FOI release
Pharmacy crime
Case reference FOI2026/01915
Received 17 September 2026
Published 15 October 2026
Request
What would you like to know?: 1. The number of recorded crimes committed at pharmacies, for 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 1 January 2026 to 17 September 2026. 2. For each of 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 1 January 2026 to 17 September 2026, a breakdown of those crimes by offence type (e.g. theft/shoplifting, burglary, robbery, criminal damage, arson, possession of weapons, sexual offences, vehicle offences, assault, public order offences). 3. For each of 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 1 January 2026 to 17 September 2026, the number of those crimes classified as violent crime. 4. For each of 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 1 January 2026 to 17 September 2026, the number of crimes at pharmacies specifically involving theft of, or attempted theft of, controlled drugs or damage to controlled drugs storage (e.g. CD cabinets). 5. For each of 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 1 January 2026 to 17 September 2026, a breakdown of weapons or objects used in crimes committed at pharmacies. 6. For each of 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 1 January 2026 to 17 September 2026, the outcome of crimes committed at pharmacies, broken down by: no suspect identified, no further action, caution given, charged, other outcome. Definitions used in this request: * "Pharmacy" means community/retail pharmacies only (please exclude hospital pharmacies). * "Crime" means recorded crime under Home Office Crime Recording Rules, not calls for service or incidents that were not recorded as crimes. * "Violent crime" means offences your force classifies under Violence Against the Person. Note on searching: If premises type (e.g. "pharmacy") is not a distinct searchable field in your crime recording system, please state this and explain the method used to identify relevant records (e.g. free-text/address search on terms such as "pharmacy", "chemist", named pharmacy chains). Address searches I'd like checked would be "pharmacy", "pharmacies", "chemist", "chemists" if the premises type of "pharmacy" is not a distinct searchable field in your systems.
Response
See attached data set.
Q3 NIL OCCURRENCES OF VIOLENT CRIME WITHIN DATE RANGE
01/01/2022 - 17/09/2026
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