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Increase in recorded incidents across most crime types
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This is a revised version of the original release published on 27/06/2018. Revisions were necessary as a result of a processing error that occurred for two offence groups: Sexual offences (Group 02) and Fraud, deception and related offences (Group 09) for the year ending Q1 2018. The number of sexual offences for the year ending Q1 2018 has been corrected down to 2,918 (from 3,026) and fraud offences to 5,925 (from 6,036). This has reduced the year on year increase for sexual offences from 14.7% to 10.6%, and for fraud offences from 15.9% to 13.8%. No other offence group is affected by the error. These revisions have been applied to the relevant Statbank tables. |
There was an increase of 15.9% in the number of Robbery, extortion and hijacking offences (Group 06) recorded in the year to Q1 2018 compared with the same period to Q1 2017, an increase of 318 incidents. Fraud, deception and related offences (Group 09) rose by 13.8% over the same period, while Sexual offences (Group 02) rose by 10.6% from 2,638 to 2,918 incidents. There was also an increase of 13.5% (from 16,856 offences to 19,137) in Attempts or threats to murder, assaults, harassments and related offences (Group 03). See table 1.1.
There was a fall of 15 incidents in Homicide Offences (Group 01) in the annualised figures to Q1 2018. It is likely that this figure will be subject to revision as it is sometimes the case that fatal road traffic incidents lead to crime incidents of Dangerous Driving Leading to Death as investigations progress.
When looking at annual changes to the data it is useful to look at trends over time. This information is available in table 3.2 and figures 3.1 and 3.2 of the additional statistical tables.
| Table 1.1: Recorded crime incidents1 classified by offence group and annualised2 total to Q1 2017 and 2018 | ||||
| Annualised total to Q1 | ||||
| ICCSq offence group | 2017 | 2018 | Change | % Change |
| 01 Homicide offences | 87 | 72 | -15 | -17.2 |
| 02 Sexual offences | 2,638 | 2,918 | +280 | +10.6 |
| 03 Attempts or threats to murder, assaults, harassments and related offences | 16,856 | 19,137 | +2,281 | +13.5 |
| 04 Dangerous or negligent acts | 7,812 | 8,257 | +445 | +5.7 |
| 05 Kidnapping and related offences | 112 | 130 | +18 | +16.1 |
| 06 Robbery, extortion and hijacking offences | 2,000 | 2,318 | +318 | +15.9 |
| 07 Burglary and related offences | 18,357 | 18,576 | +219 | +1.2 |
| 08 Theft and related offences | 64,423 | 69,638 | +5,215 | +8.1 |
| 09 Fraud, deception and related offences | 5,208 | 5,925 | +717 | +13.8 |
| 10 Controlled drug offences | 16,275 | 16,626 | +351 | +2.2 |
| 11 Weapons and explosives offences | 2,112 | 2,365 | +253 | +12.0 |
| 12 Damage to property and to the environment | 22,046 | 23,189 | +1,143 | +5.2 |
| 13 Public order and other social code offences | 29,078 | 31,083 | +2,005 | +6.9 |
| 15 Offences against Government, justice procedures and organisation of crime | 12,533 | 13,428 | +895 | +7.1 |
| 1 These statistics are categorised as Under Reservation. This categorisation indicates that the quality of these statistics do not meet the standards required of official statistics published by CSO. | ||||
| 2 The annualised figure for a given quarter is the total number of crimes recorded in the 12 months prior to end of that quarter. | ||||
| X-axis label | 02 Sexual offences | 03 Attempts or threats to murder, assaults, harassments and related offences | 06 Robbery, extortion and hijacking offences | 07 Burglary and related offences | 08 Theft and related offences | 09 Fraud, deception and related offences |
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| % change | 10.6 | 13.5 | 15.9 | 1.2 | 8.1 | 13.8 |
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