Self Storage Crimes 73/23

FOI Reference: 73/2023

 

Request:

 

1) Please state how many of the following crimes were alleged to have occurred and recorded by your force as happening at a site run by the following self-storage companies a) Big Yellow and b) Safestore (please check alternate spelling: ‘Safe Store’) in 2021/22.

 

34A Robbery of Business Property

30C Burglary – Business and Community

30D Attempted Burglary – Business and Community

31A Aggravated Burglary – Business and Community

92D Possession of Controlled Drugs

92E Possession of Controlled Drugs (Cannabis)

92C Other Drug Offences

NOTE: Please break down the total by self-storage company and by crime code. I looked up the crime codes on this page.

 

2) Please provide me with a verbatim copy of the “investigation summary field” and/or the modus operandi (MO) for the first 20 recorded crimes captured by the above search. I understand these will have to be redacted to remove private information.

 

Response 1 & 2:

 

I can confirm that there is no information held/recorded by Dyfed Powys police as there have been zero (0) crimes outlined on the relevant systems with the keywords Big Yellow and Safe Store.  The following variants were used in the keyword search - Self Storage, SelfStorage, self-storage, Big Yellow, BigYellow, Big-Yellow, Safe Store, SafeStore, Safe-Store.

 

                                                                                                           

 

It should be noted that owing to the systems adopted by Dyfed-Powys Police in relation to the recording of such matters the information provided may or may not be accurate. It should be noted that for these reasons this Force’s response to your questions should not be used for comparison purposes with any other response you may receive.  

 

(This is a response under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and disclosed on 13/02/23)