Making off from Petrol Stations

Reference Number: 1655
Date released: 09 February 2009

Request

The number of incidents of making off from petrol stations (sometimes referred to as drive offs or bilking) that were reported to the police by month.
The number of those reported incidents that were recorded as a crime
The number of incidents of making off from petrol stations that were detected.
By detected I mean any that resulted in one ore more of the following:
a) Cautioned
b) Charge & custody
c) Charge/bail/Court
d) Summonsed with a Court date

In accordance with section 1(1) (b) of the Act our response is provided below;

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Number of incidents of making off from petrol stations (sometimes referred to as Drive-offs or Bilkings) that were REPORTED to POLICE by month.	114	121	144	157	167	166	169	157	150	156	121	108
Number of those reported incidents that were RECORDED as CRIMES	94	108	120	119	133	132	138	114	115	120	95	98
Number of incidents of making off from petrol stations that were DETECTED (Note 1)	8	6	5	6	8	8	9	6	7	12	6	5

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Number of incidents of making off from petrol stations (sometimes referred to as Drive-offs or Bilkings) that were REPORTED to POLICE by month.	149	150	180	212	230	213	211	200	200	187	137	114
Number of those reported incidents that were RECORDED as CRIMES	117	108	143	162	180	165	168	148	150	148	111	97
Number of incidents of making off from petrol stations that were DETECTED (Note 1)	7	5	10	6	12	14	13	9	10	8	0	3