Electric bike robberies

Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FIN/24/2291

Version Date: 29/08/2024

The number of recorded robbery offences where the suspect was riding an electric bike/e-bike in each of the years:
-  2019/20
- 2020/21
- 2021/22
- 2022/23
- 2023/24

The Performance & Analysis Department have provided the following information.

We have created several different queries within the Niche crime database for the main crime group of ‘robbery’ and then searched against occurrence summary and OEL entry log with the keywords search of ‘electric bike’ and ‘e-bike’.

After a manual review on all occurrences, we can confirm than there have been no recorded offences in relation to robberies where the suspect was riding an electric bike/e-bike for the time periods requested.