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 5: Crimes and offences recorded per 10,000 population, percentage change in total number recorded and percentage cleared up by police force area, 2005/06

									Number & Percentage
	Central	Dumfries & Galloway	Fife	Grampian	Lothian & Borders	Northern	Strathclyde	Tayside	SCOTLAND
Total crimes	19,423	9,732	30,319	41,602	80,571	15,413	191,273	29,452	417,785
Total offences	32,546	30,068	37,687	55,469	106,438	30,110	242,260	59,238	593,816
Total crimes and offences	51,969	39,800	68,006	97,071	187,009	45,523	433,533	88,690	1,011,601
	*Crimes and offences per 10,000 population*
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
Crimes of indecency	14	9	13	18	13	12	12	13	13
Crimes of dishonesty	294	261	413	415	465	213	349	360	369
Fire-raising, vandalism etc	208	235	295	230	265	172	267	208	251
Other crimes	149	139	111	111	127	133	201	159	161
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
Motor vehicle offences	795	1,695	696	650	903	707	553	1,137	735
Total crimes and offences	1,825	2,683	1,906	1,846	2,073	1,617	1,966	2,276	1,986
	*Percentage change in total number recorded, 2004/05 - 2005/06*
Total crimes	*-2.0*	*-8.9*	*-13.0*	*1.5*	*-4.2*	*-1.6*	*-4.4*	*-7.5*	*-4.6*
Non-sexual crimes of violence ¹	0.2	-4.8	-5.4	-0.8	-10.4	-2.6	-7.1	-9.1	-6.8
Crimes of indecency	63.6	28.3	-7.2	12.6	-12.6	-1.7	-26.3	12.0	-10.5
Crimes of dishonesty	-8.7	-22.3	-19.0	-2.5	-11.6	-8.0	-10.6	-9.6	-10.7
Fire-raising, vandalism etc	2.4	-3.1	-9.3	5.7	6.5	-4.9	-1.8	-4.5	-0.5
Other crimes	2.6	14.3	1.7	7.8	8.9	17.0	6.9	-7.6	6.1
Total offences	*6.4*	*-2.6*	*-0.6*	*-8.4*	*-12.1*	*13.4*	*-9.2*	*1.2*	*-6.2*
Miscellaneous offences	-5.1	-9.6	-6.8	4.0	11.7	-3.9	2.4	10.0	2.4
Motor vehicle offences	12.4	-1.1	3.0	-14.7	-17.5	25.0	-18.4	-1.5	-10.6
Total crimes and offences	*3.1*	*-4.2*	*-6.6*	*-4.4*	*-8.8*	*7.9*	*-7.2*	*-1.9*	*-5.6*
	*Percentage cleared up*
Total crimes	69	60	47	36	40	64	44	57	46
Non-sexual crimes of violence	98	84	76	65	58	93	51	82	59
Crimes of indecency	100	74	91	63	66	81	71	98	75
Crimes of dishonesty	63	53	45	27	32	56	32	50	37
Fire-raising, vandalism etc	46	42	27	22	21	41	17	33	23
Other crimes	105	100	101	90	100	99	97	100	98
Miscellaneous offences	95	94	87	69	78	95	84	94	82

1. Figure for 2004/05 revised to take account of amended figures from Grampian

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