Livestock theft

Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FIN/25/003277/G

Version Date: 13/06/2025

The Performance & Analysis Department has provided the following information.

Data Source:

Niche crime database

Data Limitations/Caveats:

Please note that we have only searched using the exact keywords provided and have searched the occurrence summary only, not the whole text entry. This means that for example ‘cattle’ or ‘calf’ or calves’ or ‘lamb’ would not be included in the data provided. Any mentions of the keywords that are not present in the occurrence summary would not be picked up.

2024. i) The total number of cases of livestock theft reported in the calendar years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024.
      
      

ii) The total number of livestock theft reported between 01.01.25 - 15.05.25

Nil return for 2025

iii) Of the above cases, please could you break it down by theft of sheep, cows, pigs, horses, chicken, donkey, goats. If this is not possible, alternatively could you provide the number of these theft cases where a keyword search of any of the key words 'sheep, cows, pigs, horses, chicken, donkey, goats' is included.

Sheep

Cows

Pigs

Horses

Chicken

Donkey – nil return

Goats