Recorded Crime in Scotland, 2020-2021

Statistics on crimes and offences recorded and cleared up by the police in Scotland, split by crime or offence group and by local authority. This bulletin also includes a new chapter which presents an estimate of how many cyber-crimes were recorded in Scotland during 2019-20 and 2020-21.


Table 3: Percentage of crimes / offences cleared up by the police, Scotland, 2011-12 to 2020-21

Table Note: 1 and 2

Crime / Offence group 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 2019-20 2020-21
Total crimes 49.4 51.3 51.5 50.4 51.6 50.0 49.5 51.0 51.5 56.3
Non-sexual crimes of violence 75.4 78.5 81.5 83.7 82.0 77.1 76.1 73.3 71.7 72.4
Homicide etc.3 (incl. causing death by driving) 96.7 104.4 101.9 107.6 101.2 99.0 104.1 94.1 98.3 98.0
Attempted murder & serious assault4 73.9 77.8 81.5 83.3 84.4 78.6 78.9 76.3 77.2 79.9
Robbery 61.6 65.9 71.8 77.2 78.3 76.2 73.7 72.4 70.5 79.4
Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act - - - - - - - - 68.9 73.1
Other violence 89.8 90.5 88.4 89.5 77.6 71.7 68.3 65.3 60.6 52.0
Sexual crimes5 67.5 68.0 75.6 76.5 74.1 61.9 60.0 58.1 56.3 58.4
Rape & attempted rape 56.9 61.8 73.0 74.2 76.3 59.6 54.6 52.7 53.1 59.1
Sexual assault 62.3 61.8 70.6 76.6 70.8 57.4 58.4 57.7 55.3 60.3
Crimes associated with prostitution 95.9 95.9 96.7 97.3 96.4 92.1 83.1 86.8 76.2 60.7
Other sexual crimes 72.2 72.7 79.4 75.5 74.9 65.1 63.3 59.5 58.0 57.0
Crimes of dishonesty 37.2 38.1 37.4 35.8 38.0 36.7 36.9 38.3 37.1 37.9
Housebreaking6 24.5 24.8 23.2 25.0 26.7 22.5 23.9 26.4 28.3 31.5
Theft by opening a lockfast place (OLP) 21.7 19.5 16.8 15.2 21.2 17.5 18.5 18.2 18.5 23.4
Theft from a motor vehicle by OLP 17.2 20.1 16.2 15.1 19.3 16.5 15.8 19.2 19.9 31.3
Theft of a motor vehicle 45.2 47.6 43.1 39.3 41.8 39.9 40.8 41.7 37.5 51.5
Shoplifting 78.7 79.7 78.8 74.6 72.9 71.6 67.4 67.4 66.3 65.7
Other theft 20.6 21.0 20.5 18.6 19.9 19.3 19.2 20.2 20.3 24.1
Fraud 55.3 52.2 55.8 50.6 44.7 39.9 39.1 35.5 28.3 22.6
Other dishonesty 73.9 72.1 71.1 66.6 62.1 60.3 60.8 55.5 56.7 65.3

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