Headline figures:
- 6,028 (at least) vehicles were recorded by Avon & Somerset police as having been taken in 2023 – see below
- 2,236 vehicle-taking notifications were received by the DVLA from Avon & Somerset police
14/02/2025 FoIA response 1362-24 – a request for 2023 vehicles:
- reported stolen
- taken by fraud
- stolen by burglary8
- stolen by robbery*
- the number of the above offences that were deemed to be ‘no crime’; those transferred and those cancelled plus the transferred/cancelled description
A&S Response:
Further information about the A&S response and explanation can be read here.
You will see that in some instances there is a discrepancy between the figures.
Where the count of vehicles is higher than the occurrences such as for offence code 28, this is because more than one vehicle can be stolen in each occurrence.
For the offence code 48, the count of vehicles is lower than the count of occurrences because not all occurrences contain details of recorded vehicles with the vehicle fields.
| Current Crime Group | Current Crime Code | Current Crime Description | count occurrence | count vehicle |
| Burglary Residential / Dwelling | 28I | Burglary – Residential – Home | 330 | 374 |
| Burglary Residential / Dwelling | 28J | Attempted Burglary – Residential – Home | 4 | 4 |
| Burglary Residential / Dwelling | 28M | Burglary – Residential – Unconnected Bld | 166 | 206 |
| Robbery of Business Property | 34A | Robbery of business property | 9 | 9 |
| Robbery of Personal Property | 34B | Robbery of personal property | 62 | 57 |
| Theft or UT of a Motor Vehicle | 48 | Theft or unauthorised taking of motor vehicle | 6408 | 6028 |
| Sum: | 6979 | 6678 |