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Recorded Crime in Scotland, 2019-2020

Statistics on crimes and offences recorded and cleared up by the police in Scotland, split by crime or offence group and by local authority.

Table 4 (Cont.): Crimes and offences recorded in Scotland per 10,000 population, 2010-11 to 2019-20

Footnote 11 and 2

Crime / Offence group	2010-11	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14	2014-15	2015-16	2016-17	2017-18¹⁶	2018-19	2019-20
Fire-raising, vandalism etc.	156	142	112	102	97	101	97	95	88	87
Fire-raising	8	7	6	5	4	5	5	5	5	5
Vandalism etc.	148	135	106	97	93	96	92	90	84	83
Other crimes	128	128	118	119	115	110	102	109	115	118
Crimes against public justice	50	50	44	44	39	38	35	34	34	36
Handling offensive weapons								14	16	18
Not used in other criminal activity	12	11	8	7	6	6	6	7	8	8
Used in other criminal activity	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8	9	9
Drugs	65	66	65	67	69	66	60	60	64	65
Other	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
Coronavirus restrictions	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0
Miscellaneous offences⁷	402	396	382	389	343	314	279	253	240	236
Common assault⁴	135	131	115	113	109	109	107	108	106	106
Breach of the peace etc.⁸	134	135	132	134	118	116	108	98	93	92
Drunkenness and other disorderly conduct⁷	71	71	74	81	66	46	29	16	12	10
Urinating etc.	26	26	29	29	21	14	8	6	5	4
Other⁷	37	35	32	32	29	29	26	25	24	24
Motor vehicle offences¹⁰				552	366	317	256	234	215	223
Dangerous and careless driving	19	19	20	22	20	22	22	20	20	21
Driving under the influence	14	14	12	11	10	10	11	11	11	12
Speeding¹⁰				155	114	101	64	54	50	53
Unlawful use of vehicle¹⁰				108	76	77	85	81	68	71
Vehicle defect offences¹⁰				39	29	24	16	13	13	13
Seat belt offences⁷	55	59	62	71	29	15	8	6	5	5
Mobile phone offences⁷	53	55	58	67	34	19	12	6	5	4
Other¹⁰				78	54	48	38	44	43	43

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