Racist Incidents Recorded by the Police in Scotland, 2010-11

This bulletin presents statistics on racist incidents recorded and cleared up by the eight Scottish police forces in 2010-11.


Table 11. Number of previous incidents1 reported to police by victim, 2004-05 to 2010-11

Number of incidents 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11
None - first report 3,670 4,427 4,107 4,101 4,079 3,928 3,970
1 447 509 529 495 544 542 517
2 217 241 247 253 240 253 218
3 121 132 131 145 152 151 134
4 73 96 74 91 97 79 77
5 52 61 49 67 69 75 53
6 47 47 50 34 42 53 37
7 32 34 36 20 27 41 37
8 25 21 31 21 24 28 37
9 20 20 24 17 19 22 22
10 or more 110 105 150 137 172 124 126
Unknown2 245 127 535 409 530 487 674
Total 5,059 5,820 5,963 5,790 5,995 5,783 5,902

1. Previous incidents occurring within the previous two years.
2. Central Scotland police force was unable to provide information for 2010-11 on the number of previous incidents reported by the victim, and have therefore been included as 'unknown'.

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