Theft of lego (FOI Ref: 1042A/25)

Request 

1. 
   The number of recorded shoplifting and burglary offences where "Lego" is explicitly mentioned in police reports, broken down by year? - i.e. for the whole of 2020, 2021, 2022
   2. The total estimated value of stolen Lego items in recorded incidents against each of the above years.
   
   

We sent you a cost offer on 21^st May 2025 and your amended request now reads:

For the calendar years 2020; 2021; 2022; 2023; 2024; 2025 to date (broken down year by year) please provide the following: 

A keyword search for the word “lego” in recorded crime for burglary both commercial and residential / and theft from shop.  

Response 

Please find enclosed our response. 

Keyword searches are notoriously unreliable, the reasons why searches using this method are not reliable include (but are not limited to) the following: -

1. a) Searches rely on the keywords being spelt correctly with no grammatical errors
2. b) Searches rely on the keywords actually being mentioned in the summary description of the record – if they are mentioned anywhere else within the record but not in the summary, then they will not feature in any results

Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that this data has been extracted from a number of data sources used by forces for police purposes. The detail collected to respond specifically to your request may be subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording system. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are considered when interpreting the data. 

The figures provided therefore are our best interpretation of data which has relevance to your request, but you should be aware that the collation of figures for ad hoc requests may have limitations and this should be considered when those data are used.  

If you decide to write an article / use the enclosed data we would ask you to take into consideration the factors highlighted in this document so as to not mislead members of the public or official bodies, or misrepresent the relevance of the whole or any part of this disclosed material.