Update: The Astonishing Number of Thieves Working at the BBC

As we first reported back in May, more than £100,000 worth of electronic devices have been stolen from the BBC since 1st January 2018.

In disclosing that figure, the BBC, which rarely acknowledges any sort of error or wrongdoing on its part, said: "The BBC takes incidents of theft very seriously. We constantly review our security policies, to ensure they are as robust as possible."

Given the BBC's serious attitude to theft, we thought we'd ask it how many of those 132 electronic devices had been stolen by employees.

Under the Freedom of Information Act (BBC ref: RFI20210806), we sought the following information:

- The number of BBC staff reported by the BBC to the police in relation to these 132 stolen items - e.g. where the BBC suspected the employee of theft.

- The outcome of any police investigation into those BBC employees reported on suspicion of theft of these 132 stolen items.

- The outcome of any prosecution against those BBC employees reported on suspicion of theft of these 132 stolen items - e.g. received a formal caution, convicted, charges withdrawn/dismissed, acquitted.

The BBC, in characteristic tardy fashion, has just provided the following astonishing response more than 3 months late: "BBC Corporate Investigations records showed that none of these incidents had BBC staff member involvement".

That statement is so astonishing as to be barely believable.

If anyone has any information that contradicts that BBC response we'd be very interested to hear from them.

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