Pharmacies

Request Number: FOI/16225

Category: Incident and Crime Statistics - Crime Statistics

Subject: Pharmacies

Request and Answer:
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Question 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 

Question 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 

Question 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 

Answer
The following table is based on all recorded crimes where the location subtype was described as Pharmacy, during the period April 2022 - March 2025. The location subtype indicates that the offence took place at or within the vicinity of the premises type. Therefore some offences may not have taken place in a pharmacy.

Please Note: This is management information based on data extracted from a live system and may be subject to change. It is dependent on the information having been
input into the system in such a way as to identify those records that are relevant.

Of the recorded crimes where the location subtype was described as ‘Pharmacy’, one had a race hate motivation in 2022/23 and 2 had a race hate motivation in 2024/25. 
Please note that these offences have not been reviewed to confirm that the hate motivation was linked to the location subtype.