Safer Communities and Justice Statistics Monthly Data Report : March 2024

This report contains summary statistics covering a number of important justice and safer community statistics. It is published with up to date statistics every month.


Further detail on fire statistics

There were 313 deliberate building fires in quarter 2 of 2023-24, down from 324 in the same quarter of 2022-23. Over the same period, the number of deliberate road vehicle fires rose from 197 to 222. There has been a long-term downward trend in deliberate building and deliberate road vehicle fires since this series began.

Deliberate building and road vehicle fires, quarter 4 of 2009-10 onwards
Four quarter average number of deliberate building fires and road vehicle fires for each quarter from quarter 4 of 2009-10 (January to March 2010) onwards. Last updated May 2022.

Unwanted fire alarm signals (UFAS) describe avoidable false alarm signals from a workplace, either from an automatic fire alarm or from a person. There were 3,663 UFAS incidents in quarter 2 of 2023-24, which made up 19% of all incidents attended in that quarter. This is down from the previous year where UFAS made up 30% of all incidents attended in that quarter. This decrease is attributed to the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service’s new policy regarding UFAS incidents, which outlines a change in how automatic fire alarm call outs are managed.

Contact

Email: Justice_Analysts@gov.scot

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