A third of all tool theft is from vehicles

Metropolitan Police data has revealed that tool theft from a vehicle has increased by 25% in the last year – accounting for a third of all tool thefts recorded in 2021 and 2022.
There were 34,712 tools stolen in London alone from January 2021 to October 2022. That’s a 62% increase on the 21,445 tools stolen from January 2019 to December 2020.
Tradespeople are 10 times more likely to experience tool theft from a vehicle than they are from a building site or their place of work –