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 7A: Crimes recorded by the police as part of racist incidents, Scotland, 2004-05 to 2013-14 1
| Number |
||||||||||
| Crimes recorded |
2004-05 |
2005-06 |
2006-07 |
2007-08 |
2008-09 |
2009-10 |
2010-11 |
2011-12 |
2012-13 |
2013-14 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crimes of violence and sexual offences |
69 |
83 |
77 |
65 |
84 |
60 |
74 |
73 |
44 |
66 |
| Crimes of dishonesty |
62 |
67 |
83 |
73 |
72 |
91 |
48 |
52 |
40 |
28 |
| Fire-raising, vandalism etc. |
468 |
571 |
473 |
456 |
366 |
403 |
353 |
325 |
211 |
211 |
| Other crimes |
82 |
96 |
105 |
84 |
69 |
94 |
46 |
34 |
24 |
40 |
| Total offences - of which |
5,053 |
5,627 |
5,916 |
5,989 |
6,026 |
5,822 |
5,652 |
5,988 |
4,909 |
5,175 |
| Common assault |
750 |
876 |
908 |
812 |
739 |
884 |
848 |
803 |
608 |
678 |
| Breach of the peace etc.1 |
915 |
795 |
859 |
1,066 |
1,125 |
829 |
820 |
1,201 |
1,285 |
1,551 |
| Racially aggravated harassment |
360 |
300 |
237 |
247 |
228 |
183 |
159 |
121 |
119 |
111 |
| Racially aggravated conduct |
2,969 |
3,583 |
3,808 |
3,778 |
3,815 |
3,801 |
3,683 |
3,658 |
2,694 |
2,639 |
| Other offences |
59 |
73 |
104 |
86 |
119 |
125 |
142 |
205 |
203 |
196 |
| Unknown crimes/offences |
- |
- |
- |
6 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Total |
5,734 |
6,444 |
6,654 |
6,673 |
6,617 |
6,470 |
6,173 |
6,472 |
5,228 |
5,520 |
1. Breach of the Peace etc includes 'Breach of the peace', 'Threatening or abusive behaviour', 'Offence of stalking', 'Offensive behaviour at football and Threatening communications' (Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications Act 2012). See sections 6.33 and 6.34.
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