Bike theft 2020 - 2024

22nd April 2025

Our Ref: FOI2025/02488

Request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 Ref No: FOI2025/02488

I write in connection with your request for information received on 21st March.  I note you seek access to the following information:

1. Would you be able to give me the statistics on Bike Thefts in Cambridge from 2020-2024.
2. As well as possibly the plans the county plans to put in plan to stop the robberies.

Clarification required

Does question 2 relate to question 1 do you know (ie bike thefts) or specifically robbery in general across the County?

Clarification received

On Bike Thefts please. For both questions

I am required by the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (The Act) to handle all requests in a manner that is blind to the identity of the requestor. Any information released in response to a request is regarded as being published and therefore, in the public domain without caveat.

Response: Following enquiries within the Constabulary please see our response below:

Theft of Pedal Cycle - Cambridge City

2. Operation Cadence is the ongoing plan to reduce cycle crime in Cambridge City. It encompasses multiple aspects of crime prevention, from free cycle marking events that are advertised through our Corporate Communications Team (during one weeklong event in January 2025 over 600 cycles were marked).

We are also targeting known active cycle thieves – the results of which we regularly publish (one male was arrested 3 times in 4 days earlier in 2025) and we use civil orders to reduce the ability of offenders to continue their criminality (one male recently given a 12month custodial sentence and a 5-year CBO to not be in possession of any cycle without proof of ownership).

We also work closely with partners such as Council CCTV, local businesses and are involved with the Community Safety Partnership to target harden cycle storage and facilities where cycles are left by members of the public.

We have volunteers who review all cycle crime reports to check the viability of CCTV at the offence location.  Where there are further lines of enquiry these reports are allocated to officers to progress.