Recorded Crime in Scotland, 2020-2021

Statistics on crimes and offences recorded and cleared up by the police in Scotland, split by crime or offence group and by local authority. This bulletin also includes a new chapter which presents an estimate of how many cyber-crimes were recorded in Scotland during 2019-20 and 2020-21.


Table 3 (Cont.): Percentage of crimes / offences cleared up by the police, Scotland, 2011-12 to 2020-21

Table Note: 1 and 2

Crime / Offence group 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 2019-20 2020-21
Fire-raising, vandalism etc. 25.4 27.0 25.1 22.8 24.3 25.1 25.2 25.9 26.6 31.5
Fire-raising 23.9 25.9 27.2 25.1 28.2 25.7 27.5 26.9 23.0 26.0
Vandalism etc. 25.5 27.0 25.0 22.7 24.1 25.0 25.1 25.9 26.8 31.8
Other crimes 98.4 97.9 98.4 96.5 96.0 95.3 89.6 89.0 90.9 92.2
Crimes against public justice 97.6 97.6 98.0 97.5 97.5 96.7 96.3 96.7 96.0 96.1
Handling offensive weapons 80.7 80.3 78.1 80.1
Not used in other criminal activity 97.3 97.0 97.8 96.6 96.5 96.7 91.9 90.1 90.9 92.5
Used in other criminal activity - - - - - - 71.1 71.4 66.9 70.2
Drugs 99.2 98.2 98.8 95.9 95.1 94.4 87.8 87.1 91.6 92.9
Other 90.6 94.6 97.7 95.1 97.0 96.2 89.9 95.6 86.1 95.6
Miscellaneous offences7 83.9 85.5 87.5 86.3 84.3 80.3 77.7 76.6 75.9 77.1
Common assault4 71.4 72.6 75.9 76.2 75.9 70.8 69.1 68.6 68.9 71.9
Breach of the peace etc.8 86.8 87.8 89.2 87.8 86.5 84.8 84.0 83.3 82.3 82.6
Drunkenness and other disorderly conduct7 99.8 99.9 99.9 99.8 99.8 99.6 99.5 99.3 100.0 99.8
Urinating etc. 99.7 99.8 100.0 99.8 99.7 99.6 99.6 99.4 98.5 96.9
Other7 75.5 76.0 78.9 76.9 74.9 72.5 71.3 69.9 69.3 67.4

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