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Recorded Crime Q4 2024

Regional Analysis

Mixed experience with recorded crime across Garda regions in 2024

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CSO statistical release, 26 March 2025, 11am

March 2025 Information Note on Fraud Crime Statistics

In December 2024, An Garda Síochána advised the CSO of a 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.

This backlog, dating from Q3 2023 onwards, has meant that the Fraud, Deception & Related offences crime series pre and post Q3 2023 are no longer comparable. From Q3 2024, Recorded Crime contains a revised Fraud, Deception and Related Offences series for 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 experience across Garda regions for recorded crime was quite mixed in 2024 compared with 2023. There were decreases in recorded crime across all regions for just two offence groups, namely Robbery, Extortion & Hijacking offences and Controlled Drugs offences.

For most other regions, the experience was quite mixed. For example,

The number of crime incidents involving Attempts/Threats to Murder, Assaults, Harassments & Related offences rose by 9% for the Dublin Metropolitan region (DMR) and by 6% for the Eastern region. In contrast, recorded crime incidents for this offence group fell by 3% for the North Western region and by 5% for the Southern region.

Recorded crime incidents involving Weapons & Explosives offences increased by 8% for the DMR region and by 9% for the Southern region but fell by 1% for the Eastern region.

The number of recorded crime incidents involving Public Order & Other Social Code offences rose by 13% for the DMR region and by 5% for the Eastern region. However, there were little or no percentage change in this offence group for the other regions. 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.

	03 Attempts/Threats to Murder, Assaults, Harassments & Related offences	06 Robbery, Extortion & Hijacking offences	10 Controlled Drug offences	11 Weapons & Explosives offences	13 Public Order & Other Social Code offences
Dublin Metropolitan	9	-5	-1	8	13
North Western	-3	-17	-4	2	0
Eastern	6	-14	-11	-1	5
Southern	-5	-18	-13	9	-1

Table 3.1 Recorded crime incidents classified by offence group, Garda region and annualised total to Q4 2023 and 2024

Table 3.1 Recorded crime incidents^1,2classified by offence group, Garda region³ and annualised⁴ total to Q4 2023 and 2024
	Garda region
ICCSq Offence Group	Dublin Metropolitan	North Western⁵	Eastern⁵	Southern	State
Annualised total to Q4 2023
01 Homicide & Related offences	21	24	14	29	88
02 Sexual offences⁶	1,088	773	809	753	3,423
03 Attempts/Threats to Murder, Assaults, Harassments & Related offences	7,839	4,996	5,370	5,692	23,897
04 Dangerous or Negligent Acts	1,700	2,037	2,026	1,885	7,648
05 Kidnapping & Related offences⁶	60	29	29	34	152
06 Robbery, Extortion & Hijacking offences	1,459	298	420	441	2,618
07 Burglary & Related offences	3,895	1,661	2,391	1,615	9,562
08 Theft & Related offences	37,642	8,422	14,394	13,173	73,631
09 Fraud, Deception & Related offences	..	..	..	..	..
10 Controlled Drug offences	6,594	2,253	4,628	3,773	17,248
11 Weapons & Explosives offences	1,236	440	523	568	2,767
12 Damage to Property & to the Environment	9,093	3,848	4,832	4,656	22,429
13 Public Order & Other Social Code offences	10,235	5,774	5,854	6,979	28,842
15 Offences against Government, Justice Procedures & Organisation of Crime	9,063	1,490	2,395	2,598	15,546

Annualised total to Q4 2024
01 Homicide & Related offences	19	19	22	17	77
02 Sexual offences⁶	1,216	825	840	828	3,709
03 Attempts/Threats to Murder, Assaults, Harassments & Related offences	8,539	4,864	5,708	5,402	24,513
04 Dangerous or Negligent Acts	1,622	2,073	1,849	1,953	7,497
05 Kidnapping & Related offences⁶	73	32	33	29	167
06 Robbery, Extortion & Hijacking offences	1,386	246	361	360	2,353
07 Burglary & Related offences	3,768	1,658	2,541	1,777	9,744
08 Theft & Related offences	38,854	8,414	15,000	13,910	76,178
09 Fraud, Deception & Related offences	4,426	2,157	2,521	2,327	11,431
10 Controlled Drug offences	6,550	2,172	4,104	3,293	16,119
11 Weapons & Explosives offences	1,331	448	516	618	2,913
12 Damage to Property & to the Environment	9,225	3,748	4,756	4,307	22,036
13 Public Order & Other Social Code offences	11,603	5,758	6,122	6,905	30,388
15 Offences against Government, Justice Procedures & Organisation of Crime	8,387	1,524	2,161	2,391	14,463

Annualised total change to Q4 2024
01 Homicide & Related offences	-2	-5	8	-12	-11
02 Sexual offences⁶	128	52	31	75	286
03 Attempts/Threats to Murder, Assaults, Harassments & Related offences	700	-132	338	-290	616
04 Dangerous or Negligent Acts	-78	36	-177	68	-151
05 Kidnapping & Related offences⁶	13	3	4	-5	15
06 Robbery, Extortion & Hijacking offences	-73	-52	-59	-81	-265
07 Burglary & Related offences	-127	-3	150	162	182
08 Theft & Related offences	1,212	-8	606	737	2,547
09 Fraud, Deception & Related offences	..	..	..	..	..
10 Controlled Drug offences	-44	-81	-524	-480	-1,129
11 Weapons & Explosives offences	95	8	-7	50	146
12 Damage to Property & to the Environment	132	-100	-76	-349	-393
13 Public Order & Other Social Code offences	1,368	-16	268	-74	1,546
15 Offences against Government, Justice Procedures & Organisation of Crime	-676	34	-234	-207	-1,083

Annualised total percentage change to Q4 2024
01 Homicide & Related offences	-10	-21	57	-41	-13
02 Sexual offences⁶	12	7	4	10	8
03 Attempts/Threats to Murder, Assaults, Harassments & Related offences	9	-3	6	-5	3
04 Dangerous or Negligent Acts	-5	2	-9	4	-2
05 Kidnapping & Related offences⁶	22	10	14	-15	10
06 Robbery, Extortion & Hijacking offences	-5	-17	-14	-18	-10
07 Burglary & Related offences	-3	0	6	10	2
08 Theft & Related offences	3	0	4	6	3
09 Fraud, Deception & Related offences	..	..	..	..	..
10 Controlled Drug offences	-1	-4	-11	-13	-7
11 Weapons & Explosives offences	8	2	-1	9	5
12 Damage to Property & to the Environment	1	-3	-2	-7	-2
13 Public Order & Other Social Code offences	13	0	5	-1	5
15 Offences against Government, Justice Procedures & Organisation of Crime	-7	2	-10	-8	-7
¹ Based on data extracted 6 March 2025.
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.