I am requesting the extended version of the published NZ Police stolen vehicle dataset for the past 3 years for my master’s thesis in Business Analytics. I am requesting the same de-identified format as the publicly available stolen vehicle dataset, with identifying information removed. The preferred format is CSV or Excel. If available, I would like the dataset to include fields such as vehicle make, model, year, colour, body type, stolen date or month, and police district/location field, in the same structure as the published dataset. The data will be used only for academic research to analyse reported vehicle theft patterns in New Zealand, including vehicle and regional factors associated with theft risk.

Opening this data would solve the problem of limited access to longer-term, de-identified vehicle theft data for academic research. The publicly available dataset only covers a short recent period, which limits the ability to analyse broader theft patterns over time. Access to a 3-year dataset would allow my master’s thesis to examine reported vehicle theft trends more reliably, compare patterns by vehicle type and region, and produce evidence-based insights that may support public awareness and theft-prevention discussions.

Opening this data would solve this problem by providing a longer-term, de-identified dataset that can be used to analyse reported vehicle theft patterns more reliably. It would allow my master’s thesis to examine changes over time, compare theft patterns by vehicle characteristics and region, and develop evidence-based insights that may support public awareness and theft-prevention discussions.