FOI release

Pharmacy Crime

Case reference FOI2026/02048

Received 8 October 2026

Published 4 November 2026

Request

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please provide the following information: For each financial year (1 April to 31 March) from 2018/19 to 2025/26 inclusive, please provide the number of crimes recorded by your force where the location of the offence was a community pharmacy. By 'community pharmacy' I mean a retail pharmacy or chemist premises dispensing NHS prescriptions in the community (e.g. high-street, village and health-centre pharmacies), excluding hospital pharmacies. For each year, please state how many of these crimes had each Home Office outcome type recorded (e.g. charged/summonsed, out-of-court disposal, evidential difficulties, investigation complete, no suspect identified). Please also break the figures down by the following offence categories, using Home Office offence classifications: Shoplifting Other theft (including theft from the person and theft by employee) Burglary (business and community) Robbery Violence against the person, split into (a) with injury and (b) without injury Stalking and harassment Public order offences Criminal damage and arson Drug offences Possession of weapons Fraud and forgery, where recorded by your force, including forged prescriptions All other offences Please provide the data in Excel or CSV format, with financial years as columns and offence categories as rows. Please do not suppress small numbers unless you can justify it under a specific exemption.

Response

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Documents

• 26-02048.xlsx (10.9 KB)

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