Racist Incidents Recorded by the Police in Scotland, 2013-14

This bulletin presents statistics on racist incidents recorded by Police Scotland in 2013-14.

Racist incidents reported to the police may involve one or more victims/ complainers, one or more perpetrators, and may result in one or more crimes or offences being recorded.


Table 11: Number of previous incidents2 reported to police by victim/complainer1, Scotland, 2004-05 to 2013-14 1,2,3

Number

Number of incidents

2004-05

2005-06

2006-07

2007-08

2008-09

2009-10

2010-11

2011-12

2012-13

2013-14

None - first report

3,543

4,157

4,350

3,918

4,043

3,910

3,959

4,073

3,460

2,725

1

447

508

517

475

544

541

518

542

441

398

2

216

241

245

250

240

253

218

255

196

166

3

121

132

130

143

152

151

134

142

97

102

4

73

96

74

91

97

79

77

77

70

81

5

52

61

49

66

69

75

53

54

54

57

6

47

47

49

34

42

53

37

35

33

33

7

32

34

36

19

27

41

37

34

24

27

8

24

21

31

21

24

28

37

27

16

21

9

20

20

24

16

19

22

22

19

12

18

10 or more

110

105

150

136

172

124

126

158

95

86

Repeat incidents but number unknown

288

250

286

602

542

405

367

512

451

120

Unknown3

86

148

22

19

24

101

321

383

363

1,792

Total

5,059

5,820

5,963

5,790

5,995

5,783

5,906

6,311

5,312

5,626

1. The victim/complainer is the person who perceived the incident to be racist. The complainer may not necessarily be the person(s) at whom the racist incident was targeted. See Section 2.7 for more.

2. Previous incidents occurring within the previous two years.

3. Data for 2013-14, has a far larger number of unknowns and therefore caution is urged when comparing across years - see section 6.29 for more details

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