West Midlands Police Freedom of Information 5103_14

For the 12 month period up to the end of May (ie from 1/6/13 to 31/5/14) or for the most recent 12-month period for which you hold the relevant information.

1) In the relevant time period, how many instances of street robbery did your force record in which a pair of music headphones was stolen. (NB - to be clear, I am not interested in any street robberies where a pair of headphones was NOT stolen. I am only interested in robberies where a pair of personal headphones used to listen to music on a smartphone or other portable music device was stolen.)

25

2) Can you give a breakdown of the total number of such robberies in relation to the product type - eg how many of the headphones were Beats, how many were Sony etc.

Apple 1 Beats 2 Dr. Dre Beats 1 Dr. Dre Beats Style 1 HEADCANDY 1 JVC 1 Samsung 1 Skull Candy 1 Sony 1 Not stated 15

3) Can you give a financial value for each type that was stolen.

£50.00 1 £1.00 1 £30.00 2 £160.00 1 Not stated 20

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4) Can you provide, as closely as is possible, the exact location where the street robbery took place.

Arboretum Road, Walsall Brassington Avenue, Bunbury Road, Northfield Chester Road, Clifford Street, Newtown Far Gosford Street, Fleet Street, Birmingham Grange Road, Small Heath Holly Lane, Kilburn Place, Dudley Lower High Street, Cradley Heath Pershore Road South, Birmingham Pershore Road, Birmingham Princip Street, Birmingham Rookery Park, Erdington Roseland Playing Fields, Dudley Small Heath Park Soho Road, Birmingham St. Chads Queensway, Birmingham St. Michaels Street, West Bromwich Stoney Stanton Road, Coventry Stratford Road, Shirley Sutton Road, Erdington Tudor Road, Wolverhampton Uxbridge Street, Hockley

5) Can you provide details in relation to each offence as to whether anyone was arrested and subsequently charged and convicted.

For the above offences three people were subsequently charged.

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