Dog abduction

Response

1. For the period 1 September 2024 to 31 December 2025, please provide the number of dog abduction offences recorded per month by your force under the Pet Abduction Act 2024.

 

We have conducted a search of our crime recording database for all reports of Pet Abductions. This offence relates to abducted pets, so a manual review has been conducted of all of those offences to identify those that relate only to dogs

 

The table below provides the number of reports where it has been identified that a dog was stolen from 01/09/2024 until 31/12/2025.

 

	2024	2025
Jan		1
Feb		3
Mar		5
Apr		2
May		4
Jun
Jul		2
Aug		2
Sep	3	1
Oct	6	4
Nov	1	4
Dec	1	5
Total	11	33

2. For each dog abduction offence recorded during this period, what outcome was recorded for the offence (for example, the relevant Home Office Outcome Code and description, or any force-specific outcome description used)?

   (No personal data is requested.)

 

The below table provides the Home Office outcome for each of the reported offences above.

 

Filed – Incident Report OR CRI
New – Under Investigation	6
OC14 – No Sus / Victim Decline	5
OC15 – Sus/Insuff.Evidence	10
OC16 – Sus/Victim Declines	7
OC18 – No Sus / No Line Enq / Filed	15
OC20 – Transferred Oth Agency	1
Total	44

3. For dog abduction offences recorded between 1 September 2024 and 31 December 2025, please provide an aggregate breakdown showing how the following characteristics were recorded:

   Breed (including ‘unknown’ or equivalent categories)

 

Please note that these categories are not mandatory and therefore this information may not be recorded.

 

Following a manual review of the above crimes, we have identified the following breeds;

 

31 – No information recorded

2 – French bull dogs

1 – Cocker Spaniel

1 – Dachshund cross terrier

1 – Bull mastiff cross Staffordshire bull terrier

1 – Cane Corso, Staffordshire bull terrier and boxer

1 – Pitbull terrier

1 – Chinese crested

1 – Dachshund

1 – Jack Russell

1 – Bully type

1 – German Shorthaired Pointer

1 – Malinois

Sex (including ‘unknown’ or equivalent categories)

4 – Females

5 – Males

35 – No information recorded

Age (including ‘unknown’ or equivalent categories)

 

1 – 3 years old

1 – 3.5 years old

1 – 8 weeks

41 – No information recorded