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 6. Racist incidents recorded, by category of person making initial report, 2004-05 to 2010-11

Reporter 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-101 2010-111
Victim 3,833 4,391 4,373 3,987 3,737 2,867 2,775
Police 158 220 350 518 671 329 355
Third part agency report 31 74 38 50 73 80 66
Witness 282 213 331 404 419 356 453
Other 215 214 230 285 230 170 175
Unknown 0 0 0 3 15 1,158 1,083
Total 4,519 5,112 5,322 5,247 5,145 4,960 4,907

1. Information on person making initial report for 2009-10 and 2010-11 was not available for Lothian & Borders police force.

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