We are gathering data to establish if there has been a significant increase in the number of dogs/puppies reported stolen so far this year. Therefore, please can you send me a monthly breakdown of dog theft reports your force has received in the FIVE years to 31st July 2020? If possible can you please also state the number of dogs that were taken in each report? Please see the attached document. Stolen dogs, 01/08/2015 to 31/07/2020 Notes Data represents the number of crimes recorded during the period which: - were not subsequently cancelled - had a 'DOG' property sub type item linked as 'STOLEN' or 'TAKEN' One crime may involve multiple animals being stolen, where known this has been shown - this represents the number of linked property items - one 'item' may refer to multiple animals Records have been manually checked to identify breed of dog(s) These figures may be subject to further investigation, reclassification and cancelling and will therefore change over time Crime classifications based on Home Office Counting Rules for Recorded Crime https://www.gov.