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 9: Main language of victims/complainers1 of racist incidents, Scotland, 2004-05 to 2013-14 1,2
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Number |
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| Language |
2004-05 |
2005-06 |
2006-07 |
2007-08 |
2008-09 |
2009-10 |
2010-11 |
2011-12 |
2012-13 |
2013-14 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English |
4,238 |
4,770 |
5,058 |
3,880 |
3,846 |
3,559 |
3,399 |
4,022 |
3,263 |
3,494 |
| Other |
652 |
728 |
637 |
1,562 |
806 |
505 |
498 |
510 |
375 |
354 |
| Unknown 2 |
169 |
322 |
268 |
348 |
1,343 |
1,719 |
2,009 |
1,779 |
1,674 |
1,778 |
| Total |
5,059 |
5,820 |
5,963 |
5,790 |
5,995 |
5,783 |
5,906 |
6,311 |
5,312 |
5,626 |
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. The number of unknowns was higher from 2008-09 onwards. Care should be taken when comparing across years
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