Racist Incidents Recorded by the Police in Scotland, 2010-11

This bulletin presents statistics on racist incidents recorded and cleared up by the eight Scottish police forces in 2010-11.


Table 5. Racist incidents recorded, by day of week1, 2004-05 to 2010-11

Day 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11
Monday 569 639 624 621 642 573 570
Tuesday 538 576 624 661 595 544 584
Wednesday 557 600 652 641 593 585 559
Thursday 571 629 628 635 631 629 626
Friday 789 915 892 859 855 792 739
Saturday 834 999 1,088 1,037 984 1,012 972
Sunday 661 754 814 793 845 825 857
Total 4,519 5,112 5,322 5,247 5,145 4,960 4,907

1. Where the date was unknown, forces were asked to record as 15th of month; if month unknown, asked to record as 15th June. The 'day' variable was then calculated from this date. Some days will therefore include unknown values.

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