In 2019 the Greater Manchester Violence Reduction Unit was launched, based on a scheme pioneered in Glasgow which had seen success in reducing violent crime in a city once notorious for stabbings. Detailed information on the victims of sexual crime is not collected in the main SCJS survey. *This years figures include crimes under the Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018 for the first time. ): 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. This category decreased by 15% from 2,895 in 2018-19 to 2,450 in 2019-20. We earlier published the findings of a research project into Other sexual crimes, based on a sample of around 2,000 crimes recorded by the police in 2013-14 and 2016-17. Over the ten year period from 2010-11 to 2019-20, this category has seen a decrease of 32%. Drunkenness and other disorderly conduct accounted for 4% of Miscellaneous offences in 2019-20. Source: Office of National Statistics Knife crime in England 0 In 2009 the VRU launched the Community Initiative to Reduce Violence (CIRV). 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. Visit 'Set cookie preferences' to control specific cookies. Housebreaking accounted for 12% of Crimes of dishonesty. Former offenders were drafted in to share their experiences with the next generation. Further information is available in the Data Considerations section below. Until this year this category had been on an upward trend since 2011-12, having increased by 76% between then and 2018-19. The quality of recording decisions for Common assault by Police Scotland was very good, with 98% of Common assaults classified correctly. 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. Video, Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story, Can knife crime be stopped before it starts, Knife crime deaths at highest level since WW2, London violent crime 'a public health issue', a role in the world-renowned Edinburgh Military Tattoo, Beer and wine sales in Canada fall to all-time low, Ed Sheeran says wife developed tumour in pregnancy, Covid origin likely China lab incident - FBI chief, Trump lashes out at Murdoch over vote fraud case, Daily walk prevents one in 10 early deaths - study, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot loses re-election bid, Bieber cancels remaining Justice world tour dates, Uranium particles enriched to 83.7% found in Iran, LA agrees to pay Kobe Bryant widow almost $29m. Now, the same approach will be tried in London. Robbery accounted for 19% of Non-sexual crimes of violence. Sexual assault and Rape and attempted rape accounted for 37% and 18% respectively of sexual crimes. Chart 16 shows the four categories within Other crimes over the last ten years, and gives an indication of the trend and scale of each category. Contact Email: Justice_Analysts@gov.scot The debates that follow aim to make teenagers think more carefully about their actions and what is acceptable behaviour. The symbolism was powerful as Sir Stephen urged them to renounce violence or risk returning to the court for real. This has had an impact on the comparability of the recorded crime statistics before and after this point. What's he waiting for? Crimes of dishonesty are the largest group, accounting for 45% of all recorded crime in 2019-20. The previous HMICS Crime Audit, carried out in 2014, included a review of Hate Crime. increased for a long period, but there was a sharp downward trend since they peaked in 2006-07. Homicide is the death of a person purposefully inflicted by another person (it excludes suicides) outside of a state of war. This source presents statistics on recorded homicides by Police Scotland in year 2017-2018: A sharp instrument was the main method of killing for 58% (34) of homicide victims. In London, a Violence Reduction Unit is now up and running in a bid to tackle the number of teenagers dying as a result of knife crime. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Please do not provide any personal information, All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0, except for graphic assets and where otherwise stated, Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Veterans, Key Points from Recorded Crime in Scotland, 2. It is not possible to make direct comparisons between the two sources, as many fires are caused accidentally rather than as a result of a crime, and the police are not called to all deliberate fires. 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. Tackling knife crime in Scotland - 10 years on. HMICSs 2014 Crime Audit provided a quality assessment of crime recording decisions regarding housebreaking. 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. This means there is a discontinuity in the time series for Breach of the peace etc. This category increased by 2% from 10,989 in 2018-19 to 11,246 in 2019-20. 81,854 crimes and offences were recorded in Glasgow City, the highest total in Scotland, while the. It should be noted that the Other miscellaneous offences category is not considered comparable for years prior to 2008-09. 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. Further detail can be found in Chapter 7. Urinating etc. 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. Murders in London are at their highest in more than a. The number of violent deaths was so high that in 2005 the World Health Organisation reported that Scots were three times more likely to be murdered than people living in England and Wales; Glasgow was dubbed the ' Murder Capital of Europe '. The longer term trend has also been downwards, with the number of crimes recorded decreasing by 42% between 2010-11 and 2019-20. Love may virtually halt violence once a year but other factors have helped Glasgow shed its unwanted reputation as No Mean City. Hawara: 'What happened was horrific and barbaric', The people who want you to believe the Ukraine war is fake, What we've learned from Alex Murdaugh murder trial. Mobile phone offences account for 2% of Motor vehicle offences. For a more detailed discussion of the results of the audit and its relation to recorded crime, please see the previous bulletin: https://www.gov.scot/publications/recorded-crime-scotland-2018-19/. Further information on this procedural change and its impact on the statistics is available in the chapter on Group 5 - Other crimes. Scotland's Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) was set up to stem the tide of knife crime which saw Glasgow become Europe's murder. These offences increased by 3% from 12,873 in 2018-19 to 13,208 in 2019-20. In 2010, Brigadier David Allfrey, a former commander of 51 Scottish Brigade in Stirling, ran an adventure and leadership training scheme with former gang members. 2 As these figures are estimates they have been rounded to the nearest 100. 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. Read about our approach to external linking. It is based on a ground-breaking approach used in Scotland. Crimes of Robbery and Other violence accounted for 19% and 18% respectively. As a result of this amendment to recording practice, crimes of handling an offensive weapon have been substantially higher since 2017-18. 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. However, knife possession has increased in recent years, with more than 2,300. From 2017-18 onwards, crimes of Handling an offensive weapon in Scotland can be counted in two different ways. However as these sources both relate to how Scotlands emergency services respond to fires, it would be anticipated that both should show similar trends over time. This category generally increased for several years from 2007-08, peaking in 2012-13. 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. *There was a procedural change to the counting of crimes of Handling an offensive weapon in 2017-18. In the majority of cases the crime or offence resulted in no physical injury to the victim and this proportion was higher when the victim was female or if the victim did not know the perpetrator. In addition to the legislative and procedural changes outlined above, the issue of historical reporting of sexual crime also continues to play a role in the latest statistics. accounted for 1% of Non-sexual crimes of violence. In 2012 there were 2.7 homicides. There were 21 such crimes recorded in 2019-20. Police-recorded offences involving a knife or sharp instrument rose to 46,265 for the year to March, up from 43,706 in the previous 12 months, according to information released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on Friday. Note: Your feedback will help us make improvements on this site. Help improve gov.scot by filling in a short survey. Levels of Fire-raising, vandalism etc. Overall, this audit demonstrates that users of crime statistics can have confidence that crimes are being classified and counted correctly. There has been an overall decrease of 91% since 2010-11 and 93% since 2013-14. This represents a decrease of 43% in the total number of emergency admissions due to assault since 2010-11, including a 39% reduction in the number of emergency admissions due to assault with a sharp object. Whilst the specific age of the victim cannot generally be determined from the data supplied by Police Scotland, many of the sexual crime codes used by the police to record crime make it clear when the victim was aged under 18 (for example, Sexual assault of older male child (13-15 years))[3]. Further information on this audit, including definitions of terminology and tests used, can be found in Annex 2. 92.7% of incidents were closed correctly[1] and 95.1% of crime was counted and classified correctly. Over the ten year period from 2010-11 to 2019-20 this category decreased by 29%. The report also found that No-criming practice was generally good, with 96.0% of the 876 cases which were initially recorded as a crime but were later re-designated as not being a crime following additional investigation, found to have been no-crimed correctly. 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. 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). Main Findings: Recorded Crimes and Offences in Scotland, 4. The number of murders in Scotland has more than halved over the last decade, Singer Frankie Vaughan addresses gang members in Easterhouse, The notorious MS-13 street gang was formed in LA by immigrants from El Salvador, Callum, from the east end of Glasgow, has been stabbed multiple times, Sexting has become a major problem among young people, Offenders must be free from drugs and alcohol to get onto the 12-month training programme aimed at turning their lives around. These crimes have increased by 7% from 2,481 in 2018-19 to 2,657 in 2019-20. These crimes have decreased by 1% from 45,516 in 2018-19 to 45,074 in 2019-20. This is 36 crimes (or less than 1%) higher than the level recorded in 2018-19 ( Chart 1 and Table 1 ). The Coronavirus Act 2020 and Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Restrictions) (Scotland) Regulations 2020 were implemented on 25th March and 27th March 2020 respectively and have resulted in new crimes being recorded. Comparisons with data prior to 2010-11 for these categories should therefore be treated with caution. There were 1,681 new crimes recorded under the Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018 in 2019-20, the first year this legislation has been in place. In 2019-20, 89 crimes of handling an offensive weapon (not used) occurred within a prison and a further 146 occurred within a school. DeSantis won't say he's running. Dundee City's crime rate of 807 crimes per ten thousand people was the highest of any region of Scotland in 2021/22. There was a 10% increase from 4,680 in 2018-19 to 5,160 in 2019-20. In 2019-20, 62 crimes of handling an offensive weapon (used) occurred within a prison and a further 61 occurred within a school. Chart 10 below shows the number of Crimes of dishonesty from 1971 onwards. It has also informed national debates, such as the case for minimum alcohol pricing. It also includes a comparison with the equivalent month of the previous two years. Senior police officers examining ways to combat stabbings are turning their attention to Glasgow which has pioneered a highly successful knife crime prevention scheme. How Glasgow, which has one of the highest murder rates in Europe, is tackling knife crime. This compares to 127 occurring in a prison and 127 occurring in a school in 2018-19. All figures are presented at a national level as the sample size is too small to provide robust estimates for geographies below this. There were 451 recorded crimes per 10,000 population in 2019-20, with three of Scotlands city based areas recording the highest rates; Glasgow City (680 per 10,000 population), Dundee City (645 per 10,000 population) and Edinburgh City (579 per 10,000 population) (see Table 4 in Supporting files). The findings are included in the 2017-18 Main Findings report. The latest figures (for 2018-19) are available at: http://www.firescotland.gov.uk/about-us/fire-and-rescue-statistics.aspx. This bulletin presents characteristics of victims and accused, such as age and gender, as well as the circumstances of the homicide. 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. The implementation of the Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2009 on 1st December 2010 resulted in a number of changes to the recording of sexual crimes, including a redistribution of Group 2 crimes among the subcategories and a widened the definition of rape. Theft by opening a lockfast place (OLP) accounted for 2% of Crimes of dishonesty in 2019-20. Between 2018-19 and 2019-20, the number of Other crimes recorded by the police increased by 3%, from 62,422 to 64,589. The Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) initiative teaches young people leadership skills to help them support their fellow pupils. This audit found no systemic data quality issues around the recording of crimes and offences, with the resulting report stating that the quality of most incident and crime recording decisions by Police Scotland is good. In 2016, Her Majestys Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland (HMICS) published an audit which assessed the extent to which police recording practices complied with the Scottish Crime Recording Standard and Counting Rules: https://www.hmics.scot/publications/crime-audit-2016. 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/). Sexual assault accounted for 37% of Sexual crimes in 2019-20. 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. 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 implementation of the Abusive Behaviour and Sexual Harm (Scotland) Act 2016 has had an impact on any comparisons with data prior to 2017-18. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick, London. And two years later he handed five men, aged 18 to 25, a role in the world-renowned Edinburgh Military Tattoo. These are excluded as no police resources were used in the recording of an offence by this programme and the National Statistics on Recorded Crime focuses solely on crimes and offences faced by the police and not other organisations. 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. Whilst the reduction in hospital admissions appears to be larger than that for recorded crime, the change in guidance for crimes classed as serious assaults in 2015 may have had an impact on these figures. Drunkenness and other disorderly conduct includes offences such as Drunk and incapable, Disorderly on licensed premises and Consumption of alcohol in designated places, byelaws prohibited. Prior to the small decrease in 2019-20, there had been increases each year since 2008-09. This compares to 84 occurring in a prison and 72 occurring in a school in 2018-19. In 2018-19 (i.e. Attempted murder and serious assault is the largest category in Group 1, accounting for 44% of all Non-sexual crimes of violence. Non-sexual crimes of violence account for 4% of all crimes recorded in Scotland in 2019-20. Levels of these offences increased each year from 2010-11, peaking in 2013-14, but have decreased each year since. This change was made to improve consistency between the recording of these crimes and the criminal law. 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. Between 2018-19 and 2019-20, the number of Non-sexual crimes of violence recorded by the police in Scotland increased by 16%, from 8,008 to 9,316. ): 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. Over the ten year period from 2010-11 to 2019-20 this crime has seen a decrease of 43%, although there has been a small increase of 1% or 52 crimes from 4,950 in 2018-19 to 5,002 crimes in 2019-20. Drugs crimes have consistently been the biggest contributor, accounting for 55% in 2019-20. 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. The review found that over 90% of records in the sample studied had been correctly classified. This includes a 22% decrease from 6,724 in 2018-19 to 5,234 in 2019-20. As this analysis is drawn from a sample of records, users should treat the following information as a broad indication of the characteristics of drug possession rather than as an exact measure. There remains a 42% reduction in Non-sexual crimes of violence since 2002-03. During each performance they moved props around and performed. We said. A number of legislative and procedural changes should be kept in mind when reviewing trends in sexual crime over the longer term. Scotland's Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) was set up to stem the tide of knife crime which saw Glasgow become Europe's murder capital. All other Non-sexual crimes of violence collectively decreased by 5% between 2018-19 and 2019-20. Breach of the peace etc. The Other category within Other crimes includes Treason; Conspiracy; Explosive offences; Wrecking, piracy and hijacking; and Crimes against public order. 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. Chart 12 shows the number of crimes of Fire-raising, vandalism etc. In 2010-11, incidents of Taking, distribution etc. The homicide rate is also ticking up, after years of decline. fell from 88 to 87 crimes per 10,000 population in 2019-20. This category experienced a decrease of 6% between 2018-19 and 2019-20. Its key message was that gang-related stabbings and slashings were not just a policing issue but a public health issue. It has stressed the importance of positive role models and its projects have been shaped by statistics. 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. As such both the crime of handling an offensive weapon in a public place and any crime or offence committed with it are now both included in the statistics. This change involved reclassifying some activity from an offence group to a crime group, and so resulted in a small increase in total recorded crime, with 223 recorded in 2019-20. A total of 26,726 fires were attended by the SFRS in 2018-19, over half of which (56%) were started deliberately. The unit's motto was a simple one: "Violence is preventable, not inevitable.". This Official Statistics bulletin presents information on the number of crimes and offences recorded by the police in Scotland during January 2022. Other theft consists of Theft of pedal cycles, Theft from a motor vehicle not elsewhere classified and Theft not elsewhere classified (excl. Numbers have fluctuated since 2010-11, but the level is currently 14% higher than in 2010-11. Statistics on crimes and offences recorded and cleared up by the police in Scotland, split by crime or offence group and by local authority. The most recent edition, covering the 2020-21 reporting year, was published on 28th September 2021. These individual groups will be discussed in more detail in the sections which follow. Over the ten year period from 2010-11 to 2019-20, Other theft has seen a decrease of 36%, including a 3% decrease from 42,880 in 2018-19 to 41,421 in 2019-20. Further information on quality issues is available in Annex 2. An additional topical analysis of drug possession crimes recorded in 2018-19 is presented at the end of this section. Tables 14 and 15 provide . Homicide etc. This amounts to an overall decrease of 59% since 2013-14. These crimes are at their lowest level since 1971, the first year for which comparable crime groups are available. He famously convinced rival leaders to shake hands and give up their weapons. 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. motor vehicles). The Act led to new crimes of Disclosing or threatening to disclose an intimate image being recorded from 2017-18 onwards, with 655 being recorded in 2019-20 (this is part of an increasing trend with 421 crimes being recorded in 2017-18 and 596 recorded in 2018-19). into its component parts is available in Table A6. Within two years of implementing Operation Ceasefire in 1995, Boston had reduced violent crime by about 50%. Updated 'Hate crime open data'. This category increased by 2% from 23,130 in 2018-19 to 23,691 in 2019-20. Mr Carnochan explained: "That was Valentine's Day.". Last year this had reduced by a further three to 59. We use cookies to collect anonymous data to help us improve your site browsing March 11, 2019. Further detail on the type of information available from the SCJS on sexual crime is also included. Due to anomalies in the data for Motor vehicle offences, statistics for total recorded offences by the police are only comparable from 2013-14 onwards. . Some of these sections include information on sexual crime; for example, the self-completion elements of the 2016-17 and 2017-18 surveys included questions on sexual victimisation, stalking and harassment, and partner abuse. MAV also produced a 15-minute film, called Your Choice, and devised lesson plans to help stimulate a debate. This includes the number of emergency hospital admissions for assault. Information on sensitive topics is collected through a number of additional self-completion sections. 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. This comparison suggests that the overall reduction in police recorded crimes of fire-raising over the past 10 years has also been broadly reflected in statistics for the SFRS. "Reducing violent and knife-related crime is key to our drive to improve public safety," said Ms Jamieson. Awareness of the potential impact of knife crime on all parties involved: the physical, emotional and legal consequences. For the definition of Serious assault and the distinction between Serious assault and Common assault please see Paragraph 6.19 within Annex 1. Further details of this audit, and a link to the full audit, can be found in the User Guide. This analysis identified that a number of offence codes are non-comparable over time. 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. And in London, where knife crime has risen by 50 percent in the past three years, Mayor Sadiq Khan recently announced the creation of a violence reduction unit modeled on Scotland's. "We have . Common assault is the largest category in Miscellaneous offences, accounting for more than two-fifths (45%) in 2019-20. This category increased by 3% from 7,107 in 2018-19 to 7,346 in 2019-20. Crimes associated with prostitution account for 1% of Sexual crimes. The number of knife crimes in England and Wales has risen 6% to a new record high, official figures show. Following an increase between 2016-17 and 2018-19, there was a 4% decrease between 2018-19 and 2019-20. Visit 'Set cookie preferences' to control specific cookies. indecent photos of children were transferred from Group 6 Miscellaneous offences to Group 2 Sexual crimes and back-revised to 2009-10. This includes a study of the characteristics and circumstances of police recorded hate crime, based on a review of crime records. is the second largest category in Miscellaneous offences, accounting for almost two-fifths (39%) in 2019-20. Further information is available via the following link: https://www.gov.scot/publications/recorded-crime-scotland-attempted-murder-serious-assault-2008-09-2017-18/. 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/. The Vandalism etc. Further information is available via the following link: https://www.gov.scot/publications/recorded-crime-scotland-sexual-crimes-2013-14-2016-17/. This has contributed to the increase in Other sexual crimes. It included many spikes but at one point it plummeted dramatically. Chart 7 shows the five categories within Non-sexual crimes of violence over the last ten years, and gives an indication of the trend and scale of each category. For example, longer term trends in some types of offending, which existed prior to the pandemic, may remain a factor. 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. Other theft has consistently been the biggest contributor to Crimes of dishonesty, although this is experiencing a downward trend. 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