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Christmas residential burglaries
Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FIN/26/5093
Version Date: 22/09/2026
The Performance Analysis Department has provided the following information:
We have searched the Niche Crime database for crimes of Dwelling Burglary, and Crimes and Incidents with the Domestic Abuse (ACPO) Flag ticked.
Please provide the following for each of the years 2021 to 2025, based on the offence date (not the recorded date):
1. The number of residential burglaries recorded on (a) 24 December and on (b) 25 December, shown separately.
2. Of those, for each day the number with an outcome of (a) charged or summonsed, and (b) the number closed as investigation complete, no suspect identified.
24th December
|
Outcome |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 |
2025 |
|
Charged |
|
|
2 |
|
|
|
Victim declines/unable to support action to identify offender |
|
|
|
2 |
|
|
Police - named suspect, victim supports but evidential difficulties |
|
|
|
1 |
|
|
Victim declines/withdraws support - named suspect identified |
1 |
|
1 |
|
|
|
Investigation complete no suspect identified |
2 |
3 |
5 |
|
1 |
|
Adult conditional caution |
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
Total |
3 |
4 |
8 |
3 |
1 |
25th December
|
Outcome |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 |
2025 |
|
Charged |
1 |
1 |
|
|
|
|
Victim declines/unable to support action to identify offender |
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
Police - named suspect, victim supports but evidential difficulties |
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
Victim declines/withdraws support - named suspect identified |
2 |
|
|
|
|
|
Investigation complete no suspect identified |
2 |
1 |
1 |
5 |
3 |
|
Total |
5 |
3 |
2 |
5 |
3 |
3. The number of domestic abuse-related incidents and crimes recorded on 25 December (combined, or separately if that is how your system holds them).
25th December
|
Year |
DA Incident Count |
DA Crime Count |
|
2021 |
24 |
42 |
|
2022 |
21 |
50 |
|
2023 |
31 |
62 |
|
2024 |
19 |
53 |
|
2025 |
27 |
34 |
|
Total |
122 |
241 |