Publication - Statistics

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

Published: 12 June 2012
ISBN: 9781780458632

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

Table 3. Racist incidents recorded, by location of incident, 2004-05 to 2010-11

Location	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09¹	2009-10²	2010-11
Dwelling house (including garden)	804	845	1,418	913	895	715	930
Street	1,396	1,763	1,818	1,626	1,652	1,240	1,623
Shop	1,101	1,145	823	1,121	718	677	834
Restaurant/Takeaway	388	449	353	389	369	317	389
Other Business	129	164	122	144	430	116	128
Public transport/bus stop	51	74	73	88	143	72	95
School/College	73	71	59	69	65	51	55
Sporting Venue	17	21	22	24	126	19	32
Pub/place of public entertainment	143	185	148	214	195	219	271
Place of Worship	12	28	19	31	13	11	15
Medical Establishment (e.g. hospital, health centre)	47	61	50	59	58	49	72
Other	358	305	417	566	468	331	463
Unknown	0	1	0	3	13	1,143	0
Total	4,519	5,112	5,322	5,247	5,145	4,960	4,907

1. Information for 2008-09 is not directly comparable with previous years due to changes in recording practices for Lothian & Borders police force. Please see note 4.3.
2. Information on location of incident was not available for 2009-10 for Lothian & Borders police force. Please see note 4.3.

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