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

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.


Table 5: Racist incidents recorded, by day of week, Scotland, 2004-05 to 2013-14 1

Number

Day 1

2004-05

2005-06

2006-07

2007-08

2008-09

2009-10

2010-11

2011-12

2012-13

2013-14

Monday

569

639

624

621

642

573

570

687

593

595

Tuesday

538

576

624

661

595

544

585

597

544

573

Wednesday

557

600

652

641

593

585

561

649

556

632

Thursday

571

629

628

635

631

629

626

631

566

552

Friday

789

915

892

859

855

792

739

869

678

737

Saturday

834

999

1,088

1,037

984

1,012

973

1,042

930

911

Sunday

661

754

814

793

845

825

857

914

761

807

Total

4,519

5,112

5,322

5,247

5,145

4,960

4,911

5,389

4,628

4,807

1. Incidents with unknown day of recording are allocated to the 15th of the month they occurred. If the month is unknown as well, they are assigned to June

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