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Recorded Crime in Scotland, 2019-2020

Statistics on crimes and offences recorded and cleared up by the police in Scotland, split by crime or offence group and by local authority.

Table 1 (Cont.): Crimes recorded by the police, Scotland, 2010-11 to 2019-20

Footnote 2

Crime group	2010-11	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14	2014-15	2015-16	2016-17	2017-18¹⁶	2018-19	2019-20	% change 18-19 to 19-20	% change 10-11 to 19-20
Fire-raising, vandalism etc.	82,020	75,201	59,479	54,418	52,091	54,226	52,514	51,322	47,997	47,731	-1	*-42*
Fire-raising	3,966	3,755	3,066	2,549	2,351	2,595	2,793	2,632	2,481	2,657	7	-33
Vandalism etc.	78,054	71,446	56,413	51,869	49,740	51,631	49,721	48,690	45,516	45,074	-1	-42
Other crimes	67,224	67,805	62,514	63,365	61,573	59,218	54,946	58,970	62,422	64,589	3	-4
Crimes against public justice	26,294	26,635	23,401	23,610	21,100	20,361	18,795	18,679	18,512	19,441	5	-26
Handling offensive weapons								7,733	8,896	9,644	8	n/r
Not used in other criminal activity	6,283	5,631	4,015	3,795	3,289	3,111	3,271	3,570	4,216	4,484	6	-29
Used in other criminal activity	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4,163	4,680	5,160	10	-
Drugs	34,347	35,157	34,688	35,616	36,836	35,479	32,641	32,399	34,831	35,303	1	3
Other	300	382	410	344	348	267	239	159	183	201	10	-33
Coronavirus restrictions	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	107	-	-

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