June 15, 2026

2023 to 2024 Land Rover Taking & Recovery Variance by Constabulary

The following table provides an overview of the DVL A statistics for Land Rover taking reports during 2023 and 2024.

In 2024, 1,681 fewer Land Rovers were recorded as ‘stolen’ by the DVLA than in 2023.

A comparison between the year, by constabulary appears in the table below:

# Taken‘ – where the figure is a +ve, this is the increase in thefts from 2023 to 2024.Most constabularies experienced a reduction in reports that were conveyed to the DVLA.

%Taken‘ – this is the percentage by which taken notifications have increased or, as represented by -ve figures, decreased.

% Recovered‘ – the improvement, or otherwise, of recovery numbers. A -ve indicates a reduction in recoveries.

Constabulary Variance# Taken% Taken% recovered
Army NIS Liaison
Avon & Somerset Police4076.92%-23.66%
Bedford Police1120.75%-1.47%
British Transport Police-15-51.72%-17.24%
Cambridgeshire Police512.20%2.28%
Central Scotland Police00.00%33.33%
Cheshire Police-8-25.81%-31.98%
Cleveland Police-5-14.29%6.67%
Cumbria Police-4-57.14%-4.76%
Derbyshire Police-9-13.04%-8.12%
Devon & Cornwall Police1164.71%-11.34%
Dorset Police1773.91%-28.37%
Durham Police-3-12.50%5.36%
Dyfed Powys Police360.00%-35.00%
Essex Police-128-31.84%-5.05%
Fife Constabulary-9-100.00%
Gloucestershire Police2291.67%-26.27%
Grampian Police250.00%8.33%
Greater Manchester Police-143-54.17%1.52%
Gwent Police-12-41.38%-5.48%
Hampshire Police-24-20.51%7.42%
Hertfordshire Police-21-14.79%6.54%
Humberside Police-2-5.13%5.06%
Kent Police-35-17.95%-4.29%
Lancashire Police4054.05%21.08%
Leicestershire Police-3-4.17%-5.56%
Lincolnshire Police1348.15%-2.04%
Lothian & Borders Police1019.23%2.30%
Merseyside Police-48-45.71%-2.51%
Metropolitan Police Service-807-38.28%-2.46%
NAVCIS-31-40.26%-5.36%
Norfolk Police-3-20.00%-15.00%
North Wales Police6150.00%-15.00%
North Yorkshire Police-4-9.30%16.16%
Northamptonshire Police18128.57%-5.36%
Northern Police-1-50.00%50.00%
Northumbria Police-2-4.55%8.77%
Not Known-109-48.23%-17.83%
Nottingham Police2652.00%-1.00%
PSNI675.00%-35.71%
South Wales Police2434.78%-2.24%
South Yorkshire Police-55-16.42%-5.18%
Staffordshire Police3728.24%-0.11%
Strathclyde Police-66-51.97%-19.39%
Suffolk Police666.67%17.78%
Surry Police-20-19.80%3.86%
Sussex Police-33-29.46%-3.02%
Tayside Police-3-25.00%-11.11%
Thames Valley Police-24-13.79%-3.36%
Warwickshire Police2223.16%-8.24%
West Mercia Police1310.83%-3.77%
West Midlands Police-305-30.20%-1.76%
West Yorkshire Police-98-34.63%4.48%
Wiltshire Police1881.82%-22.05%