Publication - Statistics

Racist Incidents Recorded by the Police in Scotland, 2013-14

Published: 24 November 2015
ISBN: 9781785448584

This bulletin presents statistics on racist incidents recorded by Police Scotland in 2013-14.

Racist incidents reported to the police may involve one or more victims/ complainers, one or more perpetrators, and may result in one or more crimes or offences being recorded.

Supporting documents

Table 8A: Ethnic group of victims/complainers¹ of racist incidents, Scotland, 2004-05 to 2013-14 ^1,2,3,4

Ethnic Group^2,3	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14
										Number
White British	826	1,030	983	1,030	1,095	1,158	1,048	1,295	1,139	1,423
White Irish	63	91	139	121	124	87	131	95	75	70
Gypsy/Traveller, Polish White and Other White	130	122	414	477	509	534	546	700	706	663
Mixed	127	149	170	152	150	129	248	151	173	153
Pakistani	1,773	1,545	1,833	1,654	1,584	1,458	1,376	1,357	1,155	1,107
Indian	443	431	507	488	609	557	536	486	367	340
Bangladeshi	67	26	67	48	54	62	95	57	43	41
Chinese	151	153	183	117	152	127	110	153	84	95
Other Asian	508	984	532	559	505	497	503	520	395	405
African	321	325	404	443	478	505	416	539	476	452
Caribbean	92	171	59	53	59	46	46	35	24	88
Other Black	118	68	111	181	160	115	249	174	140	147
Other	295	379	339	290	290	323	335	327	227	246
Unknown	145	346	222	177	226	185	267	422	308	396
Total	5,059	5,820	5,963	5,790	5,995	5,783	5,906	6,311	5,312	5,626
			Number, Percentage & Rate
Ethnic Group	2013-14	% breakdown (where known) 2013-14	Rate per 10,000 population (2013-14) based on 2011 Census ³
White British	1,423	27.2	2.9
White Irish, Gypsy/Traveller, Polish White and Other White	733	14.0	33.1
Pakistani	1,107	21.2	224.2
Indian	340	6.5	104.0
Bangladeshi, Chinese & Other Asian	541	10.3	92.3
African, Caribbean & Other Black	687	13.1	189.9
Mixed & Other	399	7.6	116.9
Unknown	396	-	-
Total	5,626	100.0	10.6

1. The victim/complainer is the person who perceived the incident to be racist. The complainer may not necessarily be the person(s) at whom the racist incident was targeted. See Section 2.7 for more.

2. See Section 5.2 for further details on ethnic group classifications and a further breakdown for certain areas in Scotland is included in Table 8B.

3. From 2009-10 to 2013-14, legacy forces moved from a 13-group classification to a 21-group classification. During this transition period, a number of categories changed unexpectedly; especially around the 'Other White' and 'White British' categories. Caution is urged when comparing across years.

4. Population estimates taken from the 2011 Scottish Census published by NRS, www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk

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