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 7b. Clear-up rate of crimes recorded by the police as part of racist incidents, 2004-05 to 2010-11

Crimes recorded Percentage clear-up rate
2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11
Crimes of violence and indecency 49.3 33.7 49.3 55.4 61.9 70.0 68.9
Crimes of dishonesty 48.4 46.3 47.0 47.9 62.5 64.8 52.1
Fire-raising, vandalism etc 33.3 31.9 38.1 36.4 35.2 47.1 36.8
Other crimes 81.7 81.3 89.5 84.5 85.5 93.6 89.1
Total offences - of which 56.2 55.6 59.5 59.7 64.9 68.5 69.0
Minor Assault 51.5 52.9 55.4 56.9 63.2 69.0 67.3
Breach of the peace 62.1 56.0 67.2 62.4 71.3 72.9 68.8
Racially aggravated harassment 56.9 46.0 57.0 57.1 60.5 62.8 66.7
Racially aggravated conduct 56.1 57.5 59.5 60.4 64.2 67.9 70.3
Other offences 23.7 31.5 38.5 29.1 46.2 60.8 56.0
Total 54.5 53.5 58.2 58.2 63.4 67.5 67.2

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