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 4 (Cont.): Crimes and offences recorded in Scotland per 10,000 population, 2011-12 to 2020-21

Table Note: 11 and 2

Crime / Offence group 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-1816 2018-19 2019-20 2020-21
Fire-raising, vandalism etc. 142 112 102 97 101 97 95 88 87 79
Fire-raising 7 6 5 4 5 5 5 5 5 5
Vandalism etc. 135 106 97 93 96 92 90 84 83 74
Other crimes 128 118 119 115 110 102 109 115 118 129
Crimes against public justice 50 44 44 39 38 35 34 34 36 46
Handling offensive weapons 14 16 18 19
Not used in other criminal activity 11 8 7 6 6 6 7 8 8 8
Used in other criminal activity - - - - - - 8 9 9 10
Drugs 66 65 67 69 66 60 60 64 65 65
Other 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Coronavirus restrictions - - - - - - - - 0 38
Miscellaneous offences7 396 382 389 343 314 279 253 240 236 227
Common assault4 131 115 113 109 109 107 108 106 106 95
Breach of the peace etc.8 135 132 134 118 116 108 98 93 92 91
Drunkenness and other disorderly conduct7 71 74 81 66 46 29 16 12 10 11
Urinating etc. 26 29 29 21 14 8 6 5 4 2
Other7 35 32 32 29 29 26 25 24 24 28
Motor vehicle offences10 552 366 317 256 234 215 223 212
Dangerous and careless driving 19 20 22 20 22 22 20 20 21 22
Driving under the influence 14 12 11 10 10 11 11 11 12 15
Speeding10 155 114 101 64 54 50 53 42
Unlawful use of vehicle10 108 76 77 85 81 68 71 79
Vehicle defect offences10 39 29 24 16 13 13 13 13
Seat belt offences7 59 62 71 29 15 8 6 5 5 3
Mobile phone offences7 55 58 67 34 19 12 6 5 4 3
Other10 78 54 48 38 44 43 43 36

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