Reasons for unreported theft from vehicles on business sites in England & Wales 2014

Published by Statista Research Department, Apr 23, 2014

This survey shows the reasons businesses gave for not reporting cases of theft from vehicles on their premises to the police in England and Wales in 2013-2014. Of responding businesses, more than half claimed they did not report the incident due to lack of police engagement, for example they felt the police could not do anything, would not be interested or had not done anything in the past.

Reasons for not reporting cases of theft from vehicles on business premises to the police in England and Wales in 2012-2014* (as a share of respondents)

Characteristic	Share of respondents
Lack of police engagement	51%
Trivial/no loss	46%
Private/dealt with ourselves	2%
Common occurrence	3%
Inconvenient to report	3%
Police came	3%
Reported to other authorities	1%
Lack of evidence	0%
Fear of reprisal	0%
Other	9%

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2014

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Region

United Kingdom (England, Wales)

Survey time period

2012. 2013 and 2014

Number of respondents

79 respondents

Method of interview

Telephone interview

Supplementary notes

* Data is based on responses from across 6 industry sectors: agriculture, forestry and fishing, wholesale and retail trade, accommodation and food services activities, arts, entertainment and recreation, manufacturing and transportation and storage industry sectors. Data for manufacturing and transportation and storage sectors was collected in 2012 and data for "Arts, entertainment and recreation" was collected in 2013.

Definitions:

'Lack of police engagement' as defined by the source includes "police could not have done anything; police have not done anything in the past; police would not be interested; and tried to/was unable to contact police."
'Police came' as defined by the source includes "police came automatically/responded to an alarm; and someone else reported the incident"
'Other' as defined by the source includes "it's not a crime/it's just something that happens; legal system not able to deal with this type of incident; there was no insurance requirement; would increase insurance cost; crime was committed in another country; realised too late after the incident/too long had passed; recovered/retrieved/returned goods/money; fear of negative publicity/impact on reputation of business; didn't want to report it to the police; thought it was our own fault; didn’t give this a thought/know we could/had to report it; still investigating/looking into this; don't know/can't remember; and other."

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