Publication - Statistics

Recorded Crime in Scotland, 2005/06

Published: 5 September 2006
ISBN: 02641178

Statistics on crimes and offences recorded and cleared up by the eight Scottish police forces in 2005/06

Table 4b: Crimes and offences recorded by police force area per 10,000 population, 2005/06

									Rate per 10,000 population
Crime / Offence group	Central	Dumfries & Galloway	Fife	Grampian	Lothian & Borders	Northern	Strathclyde	Tayside	SCOTLAND
Total crimes	682	656	850	791	893	547	867	756	820
Non-sexual crimes of violence	17	12	17	17	23	17	38	15	27
Serious assault etc ¹	10	8	9	7	8	10	21	8	14
Robbery	3	2	5	5	8	1	10	3	7
Other	4	1	3	5	7	6	7	3	6
Crimes of indecency	14	9	13	18	13	12	12	13	13
Rape & Attempted Rape	2	2	3	2	3	2	2	3	2
Indecent Assault	3	1	3	3	3	2	3	3	3
Lewd and indecent behaviour	7	6	6	8	6	5	4	6	5
Other	1	1	1	5	1	2	3	2	2
Crimes of dishonesty	294	261	413	415	465	213	349	360	369
Housebreaking	46	30	69	74	74	17	64	48	61
Theft by opening a lockfast place ( OLP)	22	14	27	22	16	11	13	15	16
Theft from a motor vehicle by OLP	16	12	32	32	50	3	34	24	32
Theft of a motor vehicle	18	13	24	26	36	11	31	21	28
Shoplifting	47	51	55	61	57	36	53	78	55
Other theft	96	115	162	163	194	96	126	136	142
Fraud	38	14	24	21	25	26	18	24	22
Other	11	11	17	17	13	12	10	14	12
Fire-raising, vandalism etc	208	235	295	230	265	172	267	208	251
Fire-raising	7	8	11	11	10	5	10	8	10
Vandalism etc	201	226	284	219	255	167	257	201	241
Other crimes	149	139	111	111	127	133	201	159	161
Crimes against public justice	64	61	47	37	44	42	62	65	54
Handling an offensive weapon	13	9	8	11	13	12	29	9	19
Drugs	71	64	56	63	69	79	110	85	87
Other	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Total offences	1,143	2,027	1,056	1,055	1,180	1,069	1,098	1,520	1,166
Miscellaneous offences	348	332	361	405	277	362	546	383	431
Minor Assault ¹	127	124	151	152	140	116	150	117	142
Breach of the peace	156	156	140	192	103	182	211	176	176
Drunkenness	4	6	11	5	2	28	21	16	14
Other	60	46	59	55	31	37	165	75	99
Motor vehicle offences	795	1,695	696	650	903	707	553	1,137	735
Dangerous and careless driving	17	37	21	65	10	30	23	27	25
Drunk driving	20	20	21	23	19	32	22	26	22
Speeding	274	1,253	328	323	485	348	166	574	329
Unlawful use of vehicle	140	155	138	110	105	89	150	178	136
Vehicle defect offences	131	39	44	23	58	89	27	78	47
Other	213	192	144	106	225	119	164	254	175
Total crimes and offences	1,825	2,683	1,906	1,846	2,073	1,617	1,966	2,276	1,986

1. See Annex Note 8.5.

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