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 7a. Crimes recorded by the police as part of racist incidents, 2004-05 to 2010-11

Crimes recorded Number of crimes recorded
2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11
Crimes of violence and indecency 69 83 75 65 84 60 74
Crimes of dishonesty 62 67 83 73 72 91 48
Fire-raising, vandalism etc 468 571 473 456 366 403 353
Other crimes 82 96 105 84 69 94 46
Total offences - of which 5,053 5,627 5,916 5,989 6,026 5,822 5,648
Minor Assault 750 876 908 812 739 884 848
Breach of the peace 915 795 859 1,066 1,125 829 754
Racially aggravated harassment 360 300 237 247 228 183 159
Racially aggravated conduct 2969 3,583 3,808 3,778 3,815 3,801 3,680
Other offences 59 73 104 86 119 125 207
Unknown crimes/offences 0 0 2 9 0 0 0
Total 5,734 6,444 6,654 6,676 6,617 6,470 6,169

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