Non-domestic burglaries recorded between 2019-2025

Your request details
1, How many non-domestic burglaries were recorded by your force in the following CALENDAR
years? 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
2, How many non-domestic burglaries were reported to Opal as recorded by the following
CALENDAR years? 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
I know that the above stats are held as they have been given to Opal for internal purposes and have been advised by the NPCC to apply for them via an FOI of every police force.
I know that the above stats are held as they have been given to Opal for internal purposes and have been advised by the NPCC to apply for them via an FOI of every police force.

Response
I approached our Performance Review Unit for assistance with your request. An analyst within this unit has conducted a search of our Crime Management System - Connect which records complaints or allegations of those matters, which the Home Office specify should be recorded as 'crimes'. All our systems are designed and used first and foremost for Policing Purposes and have limited search capability. They provided me with the following data and explanation regarding their search criteria:

Criteria used :
SYP & crime only filter,
Incident Created Date is between 01/01/2019 and 31/12/2025, HO Sub Group
Name is equal to / is in BURGLARY BUSINESS AND COMMUNITY
Please note :
• Extracted on 04/02/2026. Data from CONNECT crime only. This is a live recording system and may be subject to change.

Question 1

Distinct Count of Crimes

Question 2
Crimes recorded locally on South Yorkshire Police systems does not centrally hold information also collated by Opal.

Opal do not record crimes. They take data from the Police National Database (PND), which captures crimes that have been recorded by all forces.

Opal will look at crime series and then develop intelligence and information to help forces combat a particular crime type. Non-domestic burglaries may include things such as break-ins to shops, business premises etc.

Therefore, our response to question two is No Information held.

Please note, every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete.
However, it is important to note that data has been extracted from data sources used by this force for police purposes. The detail collected to respond specifically to your request is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording systems and information assets.

The figures provided therefore are our best interpretation of relevance of data to your request, but you should be aware that the collation of figures/data for any requests may have limitations, and this should be taken into account when those data sets are used.

Police forces do not use generic systems or identical procedures for capturing the data. For these reasons this response to your questions should not be used for comparison purposes with responses you may receive from other police forces.