Metal theft data

• Published by: Home Office
• Last updated: 09 February 2015
• Topic: Society
• Licence: Open Government Licence

Summary

This data relates to a report which evaluates the government and law enforcement interventions aimed at reducing metal theft. Incidents of metal theft rose sharply between 2009 and 2011 in line with a spike in global metal prices.

In response, a government-funded taskforce launched interventions aimed at the prevention of illegal cash sales of stolen metal at scrap-yards. Previous reports demonstrated that metal thefts decreased in line with the interventions but not that the interventions caused these decreases. Metal prices also fell, which could have been the driving factor.

This report's analysis controls both for the effect of prices and other drivers of theft. It finds that the interventions reduced metal theft to a level far lower than would be expected by the drop in prices alone.

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Link to the data	Format	File added	Data preview
Metal theft data: British Transport Police	ODS	09 February 2015	Not available
Metal theft data: Energy Networks Association	ODS	09 February 2015	Not available

Supporting documents

Link to the document	Format	Date added
Landing page	HTML	09 February 2015
Report	PDF	09 February 2015

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