Theft of watches in the London area from 2016 to 2018 and 2023

Freedom of information request reference no: 01.FOI.24.036551

I note you seek access to the following information:

Please could you provide statistics for your whole force area crime reporting about watch theft to include:

From the period 01 JAN 2016-31 DEC 2018 and 01 JAN 2023-31 DEC 2023:

1. Qty of watches stolen in total by month and year,
2. Value of watches stolen in total by month and year,
3. Qty of watches stolen from the person by month and year,
4. Value of watches stolen from the person by month and year,
5. Qty of watch thefts from the person, which involved violence against the person annualised, Brands stolen by qty where available, annualised.

Decision

I have today decided to disclose the located information to you in full.

Please find below information pursuant to your request above.

Please note:

A count of Property Screens as per this report is not necessarily a true count of items stolen. For example, an officer may enter a single Property Screen with a Property Type of 'JC' but enter '5x watches stolen' in the free text Property Description. For a more accurate count of items, every record in this report would need reading in full, taking this FOI over the cost threshold.

The Robbery tables include Personal Robbery and Business Robbery.
The Brand of Watch stolen has been taken from the freetext Property Make field as entered by the recording