Recorded crime figures for Perverting The Course Of Justice: FOI release
- Published
- 4 December 2018
- Directorate
- Safer Communities Directorate
- Topic
- Law and order, Public sector
Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
Date received: 7 November 2018
Date responded: 4 December 2018
The information you have requested is provided in the two tables below. This is drawn from the recorded crime dataset. As you have noted, aggregate figures are presented in the annual Recorded Crime in Scotland National Statistics within the ‘Crimes against public justice’ category.
From 1995-96 onwards, recorded crime figures have been presented by financial year. Therefore, the information requested has been provided in two separate tables below.
Table 1 shows the number of ‘Defeat/Pervert the Course/Ends of Justice’ crimes recorded by the police in Scotland between 1990 and 1994.
Table 2 shows the number of ‘Defeat/Pervert the Course/Ends of Justice’ crimes recorded by the police in Scotland between 1995-96 and 2017-18.
In the final quarter of 1994-95 (i.e. January to March 1995) the police recorded 612 ‘Defeat/Pervert the Course/Ends of Justice’ crimes.
Table 1: Number of ‘Defeat/Pervert the Course/Ends of Justice’ crimes recorded by the police in Scotland, 1990 to 1994 (calendar year)
Year |
Number of crimes recorded |
1990 |
1,822 |
1991 |
2,045 |
1992 |
2,279 |
1993 |
2,303 |
1994 |
2,460 |
Source: Scottish Government Recorded Crime
Table 2: Number of ‘Defeat/Pervert the Course/Ends of Justice’ crimes recorded by the police in Scotland, 1995-96 to 2017-18 (financial year)
Year |
Number of crimes recorded |
1995-96 |
2,364 |
1996-97 |
2,304 |
1997-98 |
2,322 |
1998-99 |
2,668 |
1999-00 |
4,622 |
2000-01 |
5,260 |
2001-02 |
6,318 |
2002-03 |
6,664 |
2003-04 |
6,591 |
2004-05 |
5,832 |
2005-06 |
5,767 |
2006-07 |
6,160 |
2007-08 |
5,369 |
2008-09 |
4,743 |
2009-10 |
3,966 |
2010-11 |
3,448 |
2011-12 |
3,589 |
2012-13 |
3,156 |
2013-14 |
2,947 |
2014-15 |
2,532 |
2015-16 |
2,587 |
2016-17 |
2,281 |
2017-18 |
2,202 |
Source: Scottish Government Recorded Crime
More information on recorded crime, including the most recent publication and accompanying data tables can be found here:
https://www2.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Crime-Justice/PubRecordedCrime
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