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Recorded crime in Scotland 2017-2018
This bulletin presents statistics on crimes and offences recorded and cleared up by the police in Scotland, disaggregated by crime/offence group and by local authority.
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Table 6: Crimes recorded by the police, Scotland, 2008-09 to 2017-182
| Number & Percentage | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crime group | 2008-09 | 2009-10 | 2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18 | % change 16-17 to 17-18 |
| Total Crimes | 377,433 | 338,124 | 323,247 | 314,188 | 273,053 | 270,397 | 256,350 | 246,243 | 238,921 | 244,504 | * |
| Non-sexual crimes of violence | 12,612 | 11,228 | 11,437 | 9,484 | 7,468 | 6,686 | 6,272 | 6,737 | 7,164 | 7,251 | 1 |
| Homicide etc.3 (incl. causing death by driving) | 134 | 106 | 122 | 121 | 91 | 106 | 105 | 81 | 105 | 98 | -7 |
| Attempted murder & serious assault 4 | 6,472 | 5,621 | 5,493 | 4,693 | 3,643 | 3,268 | 3,166 | 4,007 | 4,186 | 4,189 | 0 |
| Robbery | 2,963 | 2,496 | 2,557 | 2,244 | 1,832 | 1,499 | 1,497 | 1,327 | 1,435 | 1,556 | 8 |
| Other violence | 3,043 | 3,005 | 3,265 | 2,426 | 1,902 | 1,813 | 1,504 | 1,322 | 1,438 | 1,408 | -2 |
| Sexual crimes5 | 6,331 | 6,527 | 6,696 | 7,361 | 7,693 | 8,604 | 9,557 | 10,273 | 11,092 | 12,487 | 13 |
| Rape & attempted rape | 963 | 996 | 1,131 | 1,274 | 1,462 | 1,808 | 1,901 | 1,809 | 1,878 | 2,255 | 20 |
| Sexual assault | 3,297 | 3,412 | 3,220 | 2,908 | 3,008 | 3,405 | 3,727 | 3,963 | 4,281 | 4,826 | 13 |
| Crimes associated with prostitution | 765 | 661 | 576 | 567 | 534 | 490 | 374 | 247 | 303 | 136 | -55 |
| Other sexual crimes | 1,306 | 1,458 | 1,769 | 2,612 | 2,689 | 2,901 | 3,555 | 4,254 | 4,630 | 5,270 | 14 |
| Crimes of dishonesty | 167,812 | 153,256 | 155,870 | 154,337 | 135,899 | 137,324 | 126,857 | 115,789 | 113,205 | 114,474 | 1 |
| Housebreaking6 | 25,496 | 23,774 | 25,017 | 24,222 | 21,515 | 22,272 | 20,607 | 17,637 | 16,299 | 15,130 | -7 |
| Theft by opening a lockfast place (OLP) | 6,952 | 5,074 | 4,059 | 3,529 | 3,239 | 3,218 | 2,879 | 2,193 | 1,940 | 2,027 | 4 |
| Theft from a motor vehicle by OLP | 13,649 | 10,173 | 9,495 | 8,988 | 6,159 | 6,189 | 5,816 | 4,684 | 3,888 | 3,734 | -4 |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 11,551 | 9,304 | 8,716 | 7,060 | 5,731 | 5,976 | 5,423 | 5,028 | 5,216 | 5,024 | -4 |
| Shoplifting | 32,048 | 30,332 | 29,660 | 29,758 | 26,449 | 27,693 | 27,364 | 28,424 | 28,650 | 31,321 | 9 |
| Other theft | 64,384 | 61,008 | 64,680 | 66,681 | 58,704 | 58,794 | 53,539 | 46,419 | 45,173 | 44,437 | -2 |
| Fraud | 8,316 | 8,283 | 8,983 | 8,892 | 8,898 | 8,088 | 6,913 | 7,400 | 7,811 | 8,628 | 10 |
| Other dishonesty | 5,416 | 5,308 | 5,260 | 5,207 | 5,204 | 5,094 | 4,316 | 4,004 | 4,228 | 4,173 | -1 |
| Fire-raising, vandalism etc. | 109,430 | 93,443 | 82,020 | 75,201 | 59,479 | 54,418 | 52,091 | 54,226 | 52,514 | 51,322 | -2 |
| Fire-raising | 4,651 | 4,244 | 3,966 | 3,755 | 3,066 | 2,549 | 2,351 | 2,595 | 2,793 | 2,632 | -6 |
| Vandalism etc. | 104,779 | 89,199 | 78,054 | 71,446 | 56,413 | 51,869 | 49,740 | 51,631 | 49,721 | 48,690 | -2 |
| Other crimes | 81,248 | 73,670 | 67,224 | 67,805 | 62,514 | 63,365 | 61,573 | 59,218 | 54,946 | 58,970 | * |
| Crimes against public justice | 29,493 | 26,885 | 26,294 | 26,635 | 23,401 | 23,610 | 21,100 | 20,361 | 18,795 | 18,679 | -1 |
| Handling offensive weapons | 7,733 | - | |||||||||
| Not used in other criminal activity | 8,980 | 7,042 | 6,283 | 5,631 | 4,015 | 3,795 | 3,289 | 3,111 | 3,271 | 3,570 | 9 |
| Used in other criminal activity | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4,163 | - |
| Drugs | 42,509 | 39,408 | 34,347 | 35,157 | 34,688 | 35,616 | 36,836 | 35,479 | 32,641 | 32,399 | -1 |
| Other | 266 | 335 | 300 | 382 | 410 | 344 | 348 | 267 | 239 | 159 | -33 |
*When the additional crimes of handling an offensive weapon are excluded, the total number of crimes recorded by the police between 2016-17
and 2017-18 increased by 1% and the number of Other crimes remained at similar levels over the same period. For local authority comparisons see Table 6A.
Please see Notes for Tables at end of Chapter 6.
Table 6A Percentage change in crimes recorded by the police by local authority, Scotland, 2016-17 and 2017-18
| Local Authority | Non-sexual crimes of violence |
Sexual crimes |
Crimes of dishonesty | Fire-raising, vandalism, etc. |
Other crimes* | Total crimes* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aberdeen City | -6% | -12% | -19% | -5% | 0% | -12% |
| Aberdeenshire | -12% | 10% | -13% | 1% | 11% | -3% |
| Angus | 0% | 41% | 0% | -2% | -6% | 1% |
| Argyll & Bute | 24% | 24% | 1% | -8% | 5% | 1% |
| Clackmannanshire | 33% | 22% | 2% | -3% | 8% | 4% |
| Dumfries & Galloway | -4% | 22% | 10% | -14% | 1% | 1% |
| Dundee City | 5% | 15% | -4% | -5% | 7% | -1% |
| East Ayrshire | -8% | 68% | -6% | -9% | 0% | -3% |
| East Dunbartonshire | -9% | -24% | -20% | 9% | -2% | -11% |
| East Lothian | -16% | -18% | 7% | -5% | 21% | 4% |
| East Renfrewshire | -16% | 5% | 16% | 17% | 11% | 14% |
| Edinburgh, City of | 9% | 10% | 13% | 3% | 14% | 11% |
| Falkirk | 9% | 45% | 6% | 17% | 22% | 15% |
| Fife | 3% | 16% | 7% | -3% | 0% | 4% |
| Glasgow City | 1% | 19% | -3% | 1% | -7% | -2% |
| Highland | -3% | -24% | 5% | -5% | 8% | 1% |
| Inverclyde | 21% | 14% | 3% | -22% | -5% | -5% |
| Midlothian | 0% | 11% | 4% | -9% | -12% | -2% |
| Moray | 5% | -4% | -12% | -17% | 12% | -6% |
| Na h-Eileanan Siar | -43% | 33% | -29% | -17% | -1% | -12% |
| North Ayrshire | 9% | 15% | 3% | -19% | -8% | -5% |
| North Lanarkshire | 16% | 37% | -3% | -3% | 2% | 0% |
| Orkney Islands | 8% | -16% | -15% | -14% | 37% | -4% |
| Perth & Kinross | -23% | -6% | -2% | -1% | -25% | -9% |
| Renfrewshire | 4% | 5% | 13% | 8% | -14% | 3% |
| Scottish Borders | -17% | 26% | 10% | 7% | 23% | 12% |
| Shetland Islands | 18% | 18% | -37% | 21% | -17% | -12% |
| South Ayrshire | 8% | 11% | 17% | -6% | 5% | 9% |
| South Lanarkshire | 6% | 39% | 10% | 0% | -6% | 4% |
| Stirling | -7% | 35% | 4% | 3% | -22% | -2% |
| West Dunbartonshire | -7% | 26% | -8% | -10% | -15% | -9% |
| West Lothian | -11% | -12% | -10% | -9% | 26% | -3% |
| Scotland | 1% | 13% | 1% | -2% | 0% | 1% |
*When the additional crimes of handling an offensive weapon are excluded.
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