is the second largest category in Miscellaneous offences, accounting for almost two-fifths (39%) in 2019-20. Prior to 2013-14 and the establishment of Police Scotland, the Scottish Government collected recorded offences data from the eight legacy forces, who in turn extracted the data from their own systems. The recording of crime remains at one of the lowest levels seen since 1974. Other crimes of dishonesty account for 4% of total Crimes of dishonesty. Further information on this audit, including definitions of terminology and tests used, can be found in Annex 2. This is 36 crimes (or less than 1%) higher than the level recorded in 2018-19 (Chart 1 and Table 1). Knife crime across Scotland exposed in shocking stats - and it's bad news if you're in Glasgow A Scottish Sun on Sunday probe found nationwide offences have soared by more than 25 per cent. Shoplifting accounted for over a quarter (28%) of Crimes of dishonesty. Most of these crimes (86%) are for drug possession, where the quantity of drugs seized is small enough to be considered for personal use (as opposed to crimes of drug supply). Areas were ranked according to the number of homicides and levels of violent and weapon crime, public disorder and numbers of police officers per 100,000 people. We earlier published the findings of a separate study into Attempted murder & serious assault. This represents a 2% increase from 2017-18. In February 2019 the Scottish Government published the research report 'Developing Information on Hate Crime Recorded by the Police in Scotland' (https://www.gov.scot/publications/developing-information-hate-crime-recorded-police-scotland/). The findings are included in the 2017-18 Main Findings report. Love may virtually halt violence once a year but other factors have helped Glasgow shed its unwanted reputation as No Mean City. These crimes fell between 2010-11 and 2014-15, before figures rose sharply in 2015-16 and then more gradually in the years that followed, until the decrease this year. As such the significant rise in the total number of recorded crimes of Handling an offensive weapon shown for that year, does not represent a real increase in these crimes. The Other sexual crimes category includes crimes such as Communicating indecently; Taking, possessing and distributing indecent photos of children; Sexual exposure, Public indecency and Causing to view sexual images or activity. This included findings on the characteristics of these cases, based on a random sample of 1,500 crimes recorded by the police for the first six months (April to September) of 2013 and 2017. The national rate of recorded crimes of Fire-raising, vandalism etc. accounted for 2% of Miscellaneous offences in 2019-20. In 2011 police said the CIRV had resulted in a 50% reduction in violent offending by those taking part. from 1971 onwards. "Reducing violent and knife-related crime is key to our drive to improve public safety," said Ms Jamieson. After a relatively stable period between 2010-11 and 2013-14 and a decrease in 2014-15, crimes of fraud have experienced an upward trend since 2014-15. Over the ten year period from 2010-11 to 2019-20, this crime has seen a decrease of 57%, although there has been a small increase of 3% from 1,684 in 2018-19 to 1,728 in 2019-20. By adding up all these crime codes, we know that at least 40% of the 13,364 sexual crimes recorded in 2019-20 by the police related to a victim under the age of 18. In 2019-20, Other sexual crimes made up 45% of all Sexual crimes. This category is the largest in Crimes of dishonesty, accounting for 37% of these crimes. It included many spikes but at one point it plummeted dramatically. One factor in this growth may be the UK governments 2017 amendment to the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, which made it illegal to possess etizolam (a designer benzodiazepine) through classification as a Class C drug. An additional topical analysis of drug possession crimes recorded in 2018-19 is presented at the end of this section. Over the longer term, driving under the influence has decreased by 13% since 2010-11. Over the ten year period from 2010-11 to 2019-20, this category has fallen by just under a fifth (18%). More information can be found by accessing the Recorded Crime in Scotland: Handling Offensive Weapons publication: https://www.gov.scot/publications/recorded-crime-scotland-handling-offensive-weapons/. This category has been on an upward trend since 2010-11, having increased by 238% within that time, including a 4% increase from 5,763 in 2018-19 to 5,984 in 2019-20. Other crimes account for around one quarter (26%) of all crimes recorded in Scotland in 2019-20. The biggest contributor to this increase was a rise in driving related homicides (for example Causing death by dangerous driving) which increased by 12 crimes (from 43 to 55). While the region saw a fall of 40 per cent in homicides in the decade after the initiative's launch, the murder rate has stayed steady over the past few. They almost converged after 2010, which coincides with the implementation of the Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2009, before they both increased during the years that followed up to the present. To only allow the cookies that make the site work, click 'Use essential cookies only.' Prior to 2017-18, statistics on handling offensive weapons in public places only include incidents where the perpetrator did not commit further crimes with the weapon. Rescuers search wreckage of deadly Greece train crash. In Scotland, police collect crime statistics differently, so there are no separate records for knife attacks. This is the highest total since 1946. For example, chalk outlines of a body and a knife once appeared in 15 areas identified as gang trouble spots. Since then the overall crime rate has remained stable. The previous HMICS Crime Audit, carried out in 2014, included a review of Hate Crime. Its key message was that gang-related stabbings and slashings were not just a policing issue but a public health issue. In these cases just over half of weapons used were items other than knives or other articles with a blade or point. experience. As well as the new crimes being recorded under the Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018 and Coronavirus restrictions (both referred to above in the Background to this bulletin), previous legislative changes and changes to recording will have some effect on the longer term time series. and Urinating etc.) This includes a study of the characteristics and circumstances of police recorded hate crime, based on a review of crime records. From the 1st April 2017, crimes of handling offensive weapons in public places are no longer treated as an aggravation where they are used to commit other crimes or offences against a person. As well as Murder and Culpable homicide (common law), the Homicide etc. In 2010-11, incidents of Taking, distribution etc. While offences of driving or being in charge of a motor vehicle while impaired through alcohol or drugs already existed, evidence of impaired driving is not required for the new offences. It is based on a ground-breaking approach used in Scotland. The Vandalism etc. Scotland's Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) was set up to stem the tide of knife crime which saw Glasgow become Europe's murder capital. Since 2010-11 the number of these crimes has fallen by 42%. We therefore recommend that users interested in Homicide statistics should refer directly to the Homicide in Scotland bulletin series, which can be accessed at: https://www2.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Crime-Justice/PubHomicide. Despite some fluctuation, levels of this offence fell 86% between 2010-11 and 2019-20. There has been an overall decrease of 91% since 2010-11 and 93% since 2013-14. The national rate of recorded Crimes of dishonesty fell from 211 to 204 per 10,000 population in 2019-20 (see Tables 4 and 7). Crimes recorded as Other violence account for 18% of Non-sexual crimes of violence. *This years figures include crimes under the Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018 for the first time. Drug crimes account for 55% of Other crimes. Urinating etc. Theft by opening a lockfast place (OLP) accounted for 2% of Crimes of dishonesty in 2019-20. National Statistics on total recorded offences are based on data which Police Scotland extract from their IT system (called the Scottish Operational and Management Information System (ScOMIS)) and submit to the Scottish Government. What's he waiting for? Scottish Government crime statistics for "handling an offensive weapon", though not directly comparable to Glasgow's knife figures, show that, during 2012/13, Lothian & Borders police. offences recorded by the police, Scotland, 2010-11 to 2019-20, Table A7: Racially aggravated offences, Scotland, 2010-11 to 2019-20, Table A8: Common assault offences recorded by the police, Scotland, 2010-11 to 2019-20, A National Statistics publication for Scotland, https://www.gov.scot/ISBN/978-1-80004-109-7, http://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics/statistics-by-theme/population/population-estimates/mid-year-population-estimates, https://www.hmics.scot/publications/crime-audit-2016, https://www.gov.scot/publications/recorded-crime-scotland-2018-19/, https://www.hmics.scot/publications/hmics-annual-scrutiny-plan-2020-21, https://www.gov.scot/publications/recorded-crime-scotland-attempted-murder-serious-assault-2008-09-2017-18/, https://beta.isdscotland.org/find-publications-and-data/health-services/hospital-care/unintentional-injuries/, https://www.gov.scot/publications/recorded-crime-scotland-robbery-2008-09-2017-18/, https://www2.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Crime-Justice/PubHomicide, https://www.gov.scot/publications/recorded-crime-scotland-sexual-crimes-2013-14-2016-17/, http://www.firescotland.gov.uk/about-us/fire-and-rescue-statistics.aspx, additional topical analysis of drug possession crimes, Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Restrictions) (Scotland) Regulations 2020, https://www.gov.scot/publications/drug-seizures-offender-characteristics-2017-18/, http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Crime-Justice/PubRecordedCrime, https://www.gov.scot/publications/recorded-crime-scotland-2015-16/, https://www.gov.scot/publications/developing-information-hate-crime-recorded-police-scotland/. Similar to issues previously highlighted, due to changes in police recording systems, comparisons for the Drunkenness and other disorderly conduct and Other miscellaneous offences categories in Group 6 should only be made for 2008-09 onwards. In 2007/08, there were just under 70,000 crimes recorded in the city; by 2018/19, this figure had reduced by 35% to almost 45,000. This Official Statistics bulletin presents information on the number of crimes and offences recorded by the police in Scotland during January 2022. More detail is provided in Chapter 7. Vandalism etc. Crimes against public justice account for 30% of Other crimes and include Bail offences, Resisting arrest and General attempts to pervert the course of justice. Further information about HMICSs future work plan can be found at: https://www.hmics.scot/publications/hmics-annual-scrutiny-plan-2020-21. Click 'Accept all cookies' to agree to all cookies that collect anonymous data. Over the ten year period from 2010-11 to 2019-20 this crime has seen a large decrease of 69%, including a 16% decrease from 3,532 in 2018-19 to 2,982 in 2019-20. Tables 14 and 15 provide . We use cookies to collect anonymous data to help us improve your site browsing This means there is a discontinuity in the time series for Breach of the peace etc. Chart 9 shows the four categories within Sexual crimes over the last ten years, and gives an indication of the trend and scale of each category. Between 2006 and 2011, 15 children and teenagers were killed with knives in Scotland's largest city; between April 2011 and April 2016, none were. Whilst the restrictions put in place to limit the spread of the virus will have had an impact on the number of crimes and offences recorded by the police, some caution is advised before necessarily attributing all of the changes to this situation. This compares to an estimated 5% of drug possession crimes (or 1,500 estimated crimes) in 2017-18[6], the largest estimated increase of any drug type in 2018-19. the first full year following enactment), 13.3% of all drug possession crimes were estimated to involve etizolam, equating to an estimated 4,000 crimes recorded in that year. The review found that over 90% of records in the sample studied had been correctly classified. While recorded crime in Scotland is not directly comparable with England & Wales or Northern Ireland due to differences in legislation and counting rules, there are some tentative signs that the previous long-term upward trend for sexual crimes across the UK may be slowing down. are not affected. Senior police officers examining ways to combat stabbings are turning their attention to Glasgow which has pioneered a highly successful knife crime prevention scheme. Cannabis is the most commonly seized drug by a considerable margin (51.0%), which splits into herbal cannabis (39.3%) and cannabis resin (11.8%), this equates to an estimated 15,200 crimes of cannabis possession in 2018-19 (Table D2). In 2017-18 the Scottish Crime Recording Board made a procedural change to how some crimes of handling an offensive weapon were recorded. From its formation in 2005 the VRU proposed a fresh approach to tackling the problem. The "Glasgow model" has been widely praised as a way of tackling violent crime. Former Chief Insp Graham Goulden, said the scale of the problem should not be underestimated in light of the "sexually toxic environment" children are growing up in. In 2018-19, cannabis (herbal and resin), etizolam, cocaine, and heroin accounted for 80.8% of all drug possession seizures (Table D1). However, as these sources both generally relate to how Scotlands emergency services respond to the most serious types of assault, it would be anticipated that both should show similar trends over time. Homicide etc. Between 2018-19 and 2019-20, the number of Crimes of dishonesty recorded by the police in Scotland decreased by 3%, from 114,506 to 111,409. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. As a result of this amendment to recording practice, crimes of handling an offensive weapon have been substantially higher since 2017-18. . Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick, London. Other miscellaneous offences account for 10% of Miscellaneous offences in 2019-20. MAV also produced a 15-minute film, called Your Choice, and devised lesson plans to help stimulate a debate. Even among gang members who refused to participate, data indicated a 25% fall in the number of offences committed. Further information is available via the following link: https://www.gov.scot/publications/recorded-crime-scotland-sexual-crimes-2013-14-2016-17/. Visit 'Set cookie preferences' to control specific cookies. Mr Carnochan explained: "That was Valentine's Day.". In 2019-20, the volume of recorded crimes of Attempted murder and serious assault made up 44% of all Non-sexual crimes of violence. Due to a number of anomalies in the data as a result of inconsistencies with legacy data reporting, Motor vehicle offences recorded by the police are only comparable from 2013-14 onwards. 616 of these new offences were recorded in 2019-20. These figures do not include any offences recorded as a result of the Scottish Safety Camera Programme. While not displayed in Chart 11, the numbers of Theft by opening a lockfast place (OLP), Theft from a motor vehicle by OLP and Theft of a motor vehicle have decreased over the ten years from 2010-11 to 2019-20 (Table 1). While these include specific racially aggravated offences, they do not account for all criminal behaviour which may have had a racial motivation such as Threatening or abusive behaviour or Common assault. This compares to 127 occurring in a prison and 127 occurring in a school in 2018-19. Crimes under the Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018 accounted for 18% of the total number of Non-sexual crimes of violence. At least part of the increase in 2015-16 has been attributed by Police Scotland to the introduction of enhanced guidance for recording serious assault in January 2015. This follows an increasing trend since 2014-15. Awareness of the potential impact of knife crime on all parties involved: the physical, emotional and legal consequences. Further information on this procedural change and its impact on the statistics is available in the chapter on Group 5 - Other crimes. More information can be found by accessing the Recorded Crime in Scotland, 2015-16 bulletin: https://www.gov.scot/publications/recorded-crime-scotland-2015-16/, Scottish Government statisticians reviewed a random sample of 500 common assault records from 2014-15 to develop a better understanding of the nature of this type of offence. There was a smaller than 1% decrease from 2018-19 to 2019-20 (a decrease of 82 offences). A number of legislative and procedural changes should be kept in mind when reviewing trends in sexual crime over the longer term. How Glasgow, which has one of the highest murder rates in Europe, is tackling knife crime. Dundee City's crime rate of 807 crimes per ten thousand people was the highest of any region of Scotland in 2021/22. Urinating etc. The number of Shopliftings recorded was 3% higher than in 2010-11. This increase is due to the recording of 1,681 new crimes under the Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018 in 2019-20, following its enactment on the 1st April 2019. From 2017-18 onwards it also includes Disclosing or threatening to disclose an intimate image. Prior to the small decrease in 2019-20, there had been increases each year since 2008-09. Due to a number of anomalies in the data for Miscellaneous offences, this group is only comparable from 2008-09 onwards. It is not possible to make direct comparisons between the two sources for various reasons (for example not all who attend hospital with assault injuries will report what has happened to the police). Crimes of Robbery and Other violence accounted for 19% and 18% respectively. Detailed information on the victims of sexual crime is not collected in the main SCJS survey. The research contains details about the victims, perpetrators and circumstances of these crimes. Miscellaneous offences account for around half (51%) of all offences recorded in Scotland in 2019-20. BBC Scotland looks at five key aspects of the VRU's work. Comparisons with data prior to 2010-11 for these categories should therefore be treated with caution. Levels of these offences had previously been on a generally upward trend between 2009-10 and 2013-14, before decreasing by 93% between 2013-14 and 2019-20. For further information on the classification of crimes and offences, please see Chapter 7. However, there was a 6% increase from 4,216 in 2018-19 to 4,484 in 2019-20, the fourth year-on-year increase following a prolonged decrease in these crimes. In 2009 the VRU launched the Community Initiative to Reduce Violence (CIRV). Coinciding with this change of collection, the Scottish Government carried out an extensive data quality exercise to assess the comparability of data extracted from ScOMIS with the data published in previous bulletins. At just 1%, Crimes associated with prostitution continue to represent a very small proportion of the total. When the weapon was not used in other criminal activity the median age of perpetrators was 29 and the majority of crimes involved a knife or other articles with a blade or point. The number of people carrying knives also appears. For further information on the classification of crimes and offences, please see Chapter 7. Further detail on these anomalies can be found later in this section and in Annex 2. Home secretary: 'Knife crime can't go on', 'I was stabbed nine times and had a hatchet in my head', Station master arrested after dozens killed in Greece train crash, Survivors describe 'nightmarish seconds' as trains crashed, Rescuers search wreckage of deadly Greece train crash. There will be some discontinuity for earlier years as Communications Act 2003 offences with a sexual element were not separately identifiable within the statistics until 2016-17. Knife crime in England and Wales has continued to rise, with the loss of too many young lives. This is 36 crimes (or less than 1%) higher than the level recorded in 2018-19 ( Chart 1 and Table 1 ). Other theft has consistently been the biggest contributor to Crimes of dishonesty, although this is experiencing a downward trend. Four showed very little change, with the remaining twelve showing a decrease from the previous year. In 2019-20, 89 crimes of handling an offensive weapon (not used) occurred within a prison and a further 146 occurred within a school. When the weapon was used in other criminal activity in a public place, the majority of cases involved a male perpetrator and a male victim, who were known to each other and who were both more likely than average to live in urban areas and areas of higher deprivation. Between 2018-19 and 2019-20, the number of Motor vehicle offences recorded by the police increased by 4% from 117,105 to 121,907. For example, where someone, who had left the place they were living, did not have a reasonable excuse for this when asked by a police officer, and failed to comply with police advice or instruction to return there. ): Crimes recorded per 10,000 population, Scotland, 1971 to 2019-20, Table A1: Sexual crimes recorded by the police, Scotland, 2010-11 to 2019-20, Table A1 (Cont. As highlighted above, there has been a 25% decrease in the number of attempted murders and serious assaults recorded by the police between 2010-11 and 2019-20, from 5,493 to 4,097. As a result, we know that these are historical (non-recent) offences. There have been more recent increases, although as outlined above the latest one is due to new crimes being recorded under the Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018 following its enactment on the 1st April 2019. Further information from Police Scotland suggests that around a quarter (25%) of sexual crimes in 2019-20 were recorded at least one year after they occurred and that this figure is similar to the previous year. This has had an impact on the comparability of the recorded crime statistics before and after this point. Over half (58%) of the crimes recorded in 2019-20 were in the Glasgow City area, with a further 18% recorded in Aberdeen City. As such, part of the increase in Other sexual crimes since 2016-17 is due to this legislative change. Recorded Crime in Scotland statistics for 2014/15 also show that violent. It should be noted that some offences which had previously been recorded under Breach of the peace etc. Scotland's approach is no magic bullet. In 2019-20 the largest number of crimes recorded were in Glasgow City (see Table 5), which includes 12% of Scotlands population but accounted for 17% of all recorded crime in Scotland. In addition to the above measure, figures are also available for where the offensive weapon was used to commit another crime or offence against a person in a public place. Information on the impact of the Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2009 is available under Data Considerations below. Recorded crime in Glasgow has reduced steadily until 2015/16. Knife crime in England and Wales has risen by 54% over three years, and the murder rate in London is at its highest point in decades. It should be noted that Glasgows daily population will be higher than its resident population as people travel into the city from surrounding local authority areas for work, leisure and other purposes. Statistics The 2009-10 Scottish Crime and Justice Survey states that victims of violent crime reported the use, or threatened use, of a weapon in 30% of cases. Home Secretary Sajid Javid has condemned the "senseless violence" that has seen a rise in the number of teenagers being stabbed to death across the UK. Unlawful use of vehicle is the largest category in this group, accounting for just under a third (32%) of Motor vehicle offences. Meanwhile, VRU deputy director Will Linden has credited a dramatic reduction in school exclusions in Scotland over the last decade as a key factor in keeping children out of trouble. ): Crimes and offences recorded in Scotland per 10,000 population, 2010-11 to 2019-20, Table 5: Crimes and offences recorded by local authority area, 2019-20, Table 5 (Cont. Now, the same approach will be tried in London. All figures are presented at a national level as the sample size is too small to provide robust estimates for geographies below this. This change will have an impact on the comparability of recorded crime statistics for all years prior to 2017-18, however the earlier the year selected (for example comparisons with 2010-11) the smaller this will be when set against the long term changes in total crime recorded by the police and other legislative and procedural changes made to the recording of crime during this period. Chart 4 shows that since 2010-11 all local authorities have seen a reduction in recorded crime. This has contributed to the increase in Other sexual crimes. Source: Office of National Statistics Knife crime in England 0 Drugs crimes have consistently been the biggest contributor, accounting for 55% in 2019-20. category included in this bulletin contains the crimes of: Homicide etc. Further details of this audit, and a link to the full audit, can be found in the User Guide. The full findings and analysis from this sample can be found in the 2015-16 Recorded Crime in Scotland publication: https://www.gov.scot/publications/recorded-crime-scotland-2015-16/. This was followed by Other crimes (26%), Fire-raising, vandalism etc. Of the 504 Hate crimes examined, 94% were counted and classified correctly. 81,854 crimes and offences were recorded in Glasgow City, the highest total in Scotland, while the. Theft from a motor vehicle by OLP accounted for 3% of Crimes of dishonesty. Your cookie preferences have been saved. This category increased by 6% from 36,848 in 2018-19 to 39,022 in 2019-20. Mobile phone offences account for 2% of Motor vehicle offences. During workshops, pupils are asked questions such as: "Is it sometimes ok to send a sexually explicit photo to another person?". Until this year this category had been on an upward trend since 2011-12, having increased by 76% between then and 2018-19. However there has been an overall decrease of 65% since 2013-14. This years figure (101 crimes) is the lowest over the last ten years. The results of this can be found here: Recorded Crime in Scotland: 2018-19. Chart 2 shows the number of recorded crimes in each of the five crime groups since 1971 and gives an indication of the scale of each crime group. This category accounted for less than 1% of Other crimes in 2019-20. Read about our approach to external linking. ): Crimes and offences recorded by local authority area, 2019-20, Table 6: Number of crimes recorded by the police, Scotland, 1971 to 2019-20, Table 6 (Cont. A further breakdown of Breach of the peace etc. increased for a long period, but there was a sharp downward trend since they peaked in 2006-07. Numbers have fluctuated since 2010-11, but the level is currently 14% higher than in 2010-11. This comparison confirms that the reduction in police recorded crimes of attempted murder and serious assault over the past 10 years has also been broadly reflected in statistics for emergency admissions to hospital. A decade later, Glasgow's murder rate has more than halved, from 39 in 2004-05 to 18 last year. As the legislation noted above was introduced towards the end of 2019-20, this years recorded crime figures only include a small number of Coronavirus restrictions crimes. Homicide is the death of a person purposefully inflicted by another person (it excludes suicides) outside of a state of war. Scotland's Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) was set up to stem the tide of knife crime which saw Glasgow become Europe's murder. 1 Population estimates are as at mid-year 2019 from the National Records of Scotland (http://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics/statistics-by-theme/population/population-estimates/mid-year-population-estimates). Over the ten year period from 2010-11 to 2019-20 this category has seen a decrease of 49%, including a 4% decrease from 1,740 in 2018-19 to 1,679 in 2019-20. The Other miscellaneous offences category includes a wide range of offences, including Racially aggravated harassment, Racially aggravated conduct (see section below), False/hoax calls, Offences involving children and Offences involving animals/plants. These crimes are at their lowest level since 1971, the first year for which comparable crime groups are available. The recording of crime remains at one of the lowest levels seen since 1974. Common assault is the largest category in Miscellaneous offences, accounting for more than two-fifths (45%) in 2019-20. Sexual crimes have been on a long-term upward trend since 1974, with some fluctuations. Further information on quality issues is available in Annex 2. 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