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 8. Ethnic origin1 of victims of racist incidents, 2004-05 to 2010-11

Ethnic Group 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11
White British 826 1,030 983 1,030 1,095 1,158 1,045
White Irish 63 91 139 121 124 87 131
Other White2 130 122 414 477 509 534 546
Mixed 127 149 170 152 150 129 248
Indian 443 431 507 488 609 557 536
Pakistani 1,773 1,545 1,833 1,654 1,584 1,458 1,376
Bangladeshi 67 26 67 48 54 62 95
Other Asian 508 984 532 559 505 497 503
Caribbean 92 171 59 53 59 46 46
African 321 325 404 443 478 505 416
Other Black 118 68 111 181 160 115 249
Chinese 151 153 183 117 152 127 109
Other 295 379 339 290 290 323 335
Unknown 145 346 222 177 226 185 267
Total 5,059 5,820 5,963 5,790 5,995 5,783 5,902

1. See note 4.6 for detail of changes to ethnic origin classifications implemented in 2009-10.
2. Includes Gypsy/Traveller, Polish White and Other White.

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