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Domestic Abuse Recorded By the Police in Scotland, 1 January - 31 December 2003

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DOMESTIC ABUSE RECORDED BY THE POLICE IN SCOTLAND

Incidents of domestic abuse recorded by the police where incidents against that victim had previously been recorded, by police force area. Number of previous incidents, 1 January - 31 December 2003

Table 6

Number

Number of previous incidents (1)

1 incident

2-3 incidents

4-5 incidents

6-10 incidents

11 or more incidents

Number of previous incidents not recorded

TOTAL

Central

285

244

124

78

58

-

789

Dumfries & Galloway

308

190

92

58

25

-

673

Fife

226

107

16

-

-

-

349

Grampian

707

712

380

378

307

-

2,484

Lothian & Borders

123

129

55

54

46

3,222

3,629

Northern

659

80

25

23

13

-

800

Strathclyde

3,020

1,893

599

363

74

-

5,949

Tayside

637

520

278

247

105

-

1,787

TOTAL

5,965

3,875

1,569

1,201

628

3,222

16,460

1. Forces can only identify a repeat victim if s/he has previously been entered onto their database. The longer the database has been in existence the more likely it is that a repeat victim will be recognised as such. Police forces have maintained their databases over different periods and the proportion of identified repeat victims varies accordingly.

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