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Recorded Crime Q3 2024

Regional Analysis

Burglary, Theft and Weapons crime increased while Controlled Drug offences fell across all Garda regions in the year to Q3 2024

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CSO statistical release, 03 March 2025, 11am

March 2025 Information Note on Fraud Crime Statistics

The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has today (03 March 2025) issued an Information Note on Fraud Crime Statistics to accompany the Recorded Crime Q3 2024 release.

The Recorded Crime Q3 2024 release was due to be published in December 2024 but was postponed to allow the CSO engage with An Garda Síochána (AGS) regarding a reported backlog in the recording of potential fraud related crime incidents reported by financial Institutions under Section 19 of the Criminal Justice Act, 2011 on the PULSE system.

Users should be aware that as a result, the Fraud, Deception & Related offences crime series pre and post Q3 2023 are no longer comparable, and this release, Recorded Crime Q3 2024, contains a revised Fraud, Deception and Related Offences series from Q3 2023 onwards based only on fraud crime incidents reported directly to AGS by members of the public. Please see our accompanying Information Note for more details.

The number of recorded crime incidents involving Burglary, Theft and Weapon crimes increased across all regions in the year to Q3 2024. The details are as follows:

The largest rate of increase for incidents involving Burglary & Related offences was for the Southern region at 23%, followed by the Eastern region (+9%). The Dublin Metropolitan Region (DMR) had the lowest rate of increase at 5%.
Theft & Related offences had the largest rate of increase in the number of recorded incidents for the Eastern region (+11%) compared with increases of 9% for the Southern region and 7% for the DMR. The rate for the North Western region was 2%.
The number of crime incidents involving Weapons & Explosives offences rose by 16% in the DMR and this was followed by the Southern region at 13%. The rate for the other two regions was between 4% and 5%.

By contrast, the number of recorded crime incidents fell across all regions for Controlled Drug offences. The largest rate of decrease was for the Southern region (-11%), and this was followed by the Eastern region (-9%). The rate of decrease was 3% for the DMR and North Western regions.

For all other offence groups, the experience across Garda regions was mixed. See Figure 3.1 and Table 3.1.

An Garda Síochána are currently in the process of the rolling out of a new Operation Model. This will involve a fundamental change to the organisational structure from the existing District Based Model to a new Divisional Functional Area Model. Further updates will follow in due course.

	07 Burglary & Related offences	08 Theft & Related offences	10 Controlled Drug offences	11 Weapons & Explosives offences
Dublin Metropolitan	5	7	-3	16
North Western	7	2	-3	5
Eastern	9	11	-9	4
Southern	23	9	-11	13

Table 3.1 Recorded crime incidents classified by offence group, Garda region and annualised total to Q3 2023 and 2024

Table 3.1 Recorded crime incidents^1,2classified by offence group, Garda region³ and annualised⁴ total to Q3 2023 and 2024
	Garda region
ICCSq Offence Group	Dublin Metropolitan	North Western⁵	Eastern⁵	Southern	State
Annualised total to Q3 2023
01 Homicide & Related offences	19	22	19	25	85
02 Sexual offences⁶	1,180	761	823	813	3,577
03 Attempts/Threats to Murder, Assaults, Harassments & Related offences	7,640	5,140	5,475	5,625	23,880
04 Dangerous or Negligent Acts	1,793	1,937	1,883	1,935	7,548
05 Kidnapping & Related offences⁶	52	30	27	36	145
06 Robbery, Extortion & Hijacking offences	1,346	288	414	434	2,482
07 Burglary & Related offences	3,729	1,588	2,298	1,488	9,103
08 Theft & Related offences	37,077	8,315	13,774	12,763	71,929
09 Fraud, Deception & Related offences	..	..	..	..	..
10 Controlled Drug offences	6,674	2,217	4,723	3,810	17,424
11 Weapons & Explosives offences	1,181	432	506	554	2,673
12 Damage to Property & to the Environment	9,080	3,903	4,830	4,429	22,242
13 Public Order & Other Social Code offences	10,366	5,912	5,798	7,247	29,323
15 Offences against Government, Justice Procedures & Organisation of Crime	9,198	1,499	2,346	2,630	15,673

Annualised total to Q3 2024
01 Homicide & Related offences	19	19	13	24	75
02 Sexual offences⁶	1,113	823	804	795	3,535
03 Attempts/Threats to Murder, Assaults, Harassments & Related offences	8,358	4,772	5,543	5,501	24,174
04 Dangerous or Negligent Acts	1,541	2,144	1,979	1,877	7,541
05 Kidnapping & Related offences⁶	68	31	35	34	168
06 Robbery, Extortion & Hijacking offences	1,453	234	378	372	2,437
07 Burglary & Related offences	3,928	1,704	2,516	1,833	9,981
08 Theft & Related offences	39,591	8,489	15,278	13,902	77260
09 Fraud, Deception & Related offences	4,478	2,218	2,461	2,404	11561
10 Controlled Drug offences	6,473	2,158	4,284	3,380	16295
11 Weapons & Explosives offences	1,367	453	524	626	2,970
12 Damage to Property & to the Environment	9,320	3,665	4,790	4,405	22,180
13 Public Order & Other Social Code offences	11,314	5,761	6,176	6,841	30,092
15 Offences against Government, Justice Procedures & Organisation of Crime	8,344	1,516	2,258	2,447	14,565

Annualised total change to Q3 2024
01 Homicide & Related offences	0	-3	-6	-1	-10
02 Sexual offences⁶	-67	62	-19	-18	-42
03 Attempts/Threats to Murder, Assaults, Harassments & Related offences	718	-368	68	-124	294
04 Dangerous or Negligent Acts	-252	207	96	-58	-7
05 Kidnapping & Related offences⁶	16	1	8	-2	23
06 Robbery, Extortion & Hijacking offences	107	-54	-36	-62	-45
07 Burglary & Related offences	199	116	218	345	878
08 Theft & Related offences	2,514	174	1,504	1,139	5,331
09 Fraud, Deception & Related offences	..	..	..	..	..
10 Controlled Drug offences	-201	-59	-439	-430	-1,129
11 Weapons & Explosives offences	186	21	18	72	297
12 Damage to Property & to the Environment	240	-238	-40	-24	-62
13 Public Order & Other Social Code offences	948	-151	378	-406	769
15 Offences against Government, Justice Procedures & Organisation of Crime	-854	17	-88	-183	-1,108

Annualised total percentage change to Q3 2024
01 Homicide & Related offences	0	-14	-32	-4	-12
02 Sexual offences⁶	-6	8	-2	-2	-1
03 Attempts/Threats to Murder, Assaults, Harassments & Related offences	9	-7	1	-2	1
04 Dangerous or Negligent Acts	-14	11	5	-3	0
05 Kidnapping & Related offences⁶	31	3	30	-6	16
06 Robbery, Extortion & Hijacking offences	8	-19	-9	-14	-2
07 Burglary & Related offences	5	7	9	23	10
08 Theft & Related offences	7	2	11	9	7
09 Fraud, Deception & Related offences	..	..	..	..	..
10 Controlled Drug offences	-3	-3	-9	-11	-6
11 Weapons & Explosives offences	16	5	4	13	11
12 Damage to Property & to the Environment	3	-6	-1	-1	0
13 Public Order & Other Social Code offences	9	-3	7	-6	3
15 Offences against Government, Justice Procedures & Organisation of Crime	-9	1	-4	-7	-7
¹ Based on data extracted 3 December 2024.
² Data may be subject to revision.
³ These figures reflect recorded crime according to new Garda regions which became operational during Q4 2019.
⁴The annualised figure for a given quarter is the total number of crimes recorded in the 12 months prior to end of that quarter.
⁵ From 28 January 2024, policing services were transferred from the Laytown sub-district in the Meath Division to the Drogheda sub-district in the Louth Division. This also means that from this date policing services that were in the Laytown sub-district have moved from the Eastern to the North Western Garda region.
⁶ Kidnapping & Related offences figures for 2022 have been revised due to reclassification of some crime incidents to Sexual offences.
.. ‘09 Fraud, Deception & Related offences’ from Q3 2023 onwards has been revised due to the effect of the backlog in processing suspected fraud crime incidents reported to the Gardaí by Financial Institutions under Section 19 of the Criminal Justice Act, 2011. It is no longer comparable to those published for the period prior to Q3 2023. Please see information note at the beginning of this chapter.