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2023 & 2024 Stolen/Recovered Land Rovers

2023:

7,136 thefts recorded
2,587 recoveries
Average recovery rate 36.25%

2024

5,455 thefts recorded
1,805 recoveries
Average recovery rate 33.09%

Recovery rates are an intriguing figure, arguably misleading. To demonstrate, by use of an a extreme, how they may be misleading, a constabulary could suffer 100 thefts in a year and not find one of the vehicles stolen from within their own jurisdiction. However, surrounding constabularies may locate all 100 vehicles. The impression would be that the constabulary had a 100% recovery rate.

However, they provide a means of considering losses from an area, the likelihood of those vehicles being found, and comparing areas.

The Land Rover theft/recovery figures by the constabulary are below.

A table displaying the 2023 to 2024 Land Rover theft number variance by constabulary can be found here.

A table displaying the 2023 to 2024 Land Rover theft percentage variance by constabulary can be found here.

A table displaying the 2023 to 2024 Land Rover percentage recovery variance by constabulary can be found here


Constabulary2023 Stolen Vehicles2023 Recovered Vehicles2023 Recovery %2024 Stolen Vehicles2024 Recovered Vehicles2024 Recovery %
Army NIS Liaison11100.00%
Avon & Somerset Police522751.92%922628.26%
Bedford Police531935.85%642234.38%
British Transport Police29517.24%1400.00%
Cambridgeshire Police411639.02%461941.30%
Central Scotland Police3133.33%3266.67%
Cheshire Police311858.06%23626.09%
Cleveland Police35720.00%30826.67%
Cumbria Police7571.43%3266.67%
Derbyshire Police692434.78%601626.67%
Devon & Cornwall Police17847.06%281035.71%
Dorset Police231460.87%401332.50%
Durham Police24937.50%21942.86%
Dyfed Powys Police5360.00%8225.00%
Essex Police40214536.07%2748531.02%
Fife Constabulary9666.67%
Gloucestershire Police241145.83%46919.57%
Grampian Police4125.00%6233.33%
Greater Manchester Police26411643.94%1215545.45%
Gwent Police29517.24%17211.76%
Hampshire Police1175849.57%935356.99%
Hertfordshire Police1424028.17%1214234.71%
Humberside Police391743.59%371848.65%
Kent Police1956231.79%1604427.50%
Lancashire Police742432.43%1146153.51%
Leicestershire Police722838.89%692333.33%
Lincolnshire Police271037.04%401435.00%
Lothian & Borders Police522955.77%623658.06%
Merseyside Police105109.52%5747.02%
Metropolitan Police Service210882839.28%130147936.82%
NAVCIS775166.23%462860.87%
Norfolk Police15640.00%12325.00%
North Wales Police4125.00%10110.00%
North Yorkshire Police431432.56%391948.72%
Northamptonshire Police14642.86%321237.50%
Northern Police2150.00%11100.00%
Northumbria Police441534.09%421842.86%
Not Known2267734.07%1171916.24%
Nottingham Police501326.00%761925.00%
PSNI8450.00%14214.29%
South Wales Police692942.03%933739.78%
South Yorkshire Police3356419.10%2803913.93%
Staffordshire Police1312922.14%1683722.02%
Strathclyde Police1278566.93%612947.54%
Suffolk Police9222.22%15640.00%
Surry Police1013635.64%813239.51%
Sussex Police1125347.32%793544.30%
Tayside Police12866.67%9555.56%
Thames Valley Police1746537.36%1505134.00%
Warwickshire Police953334.74%1173126.50%
West Mercia Police1203730.83%1333627.07%
West Midlands Police101030029.70%70519727.94%
West Yorkshire Police2839934.98%1857339.46%
Wiltshire Police221254.55%401332.50%

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