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Recorded Crimes and Offences Involving Firearms, Scotland, 2005-06

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Table 2 Crimes and offences recorded by the police in which a firearm was alleged to have been used as a percentage of all crimes and offences recorded for selected crimes, Scotland, 1996-97 to 2005-06

Percentage (1)

Crime/offence

1996-97

1997-98

1998-99

1999-00

2000-01

2001-02

2002-03

2003-04

2004-05

2005-06

Homicide (2)

7.1

4.9

7.3

3.9

2.7

4.5

2.4

1.9

5.6

8.4

Attempted murder (2)

5.7

2.5

2.8

3.1

2.9

3.3

3.6

4.2

2.4

4.9

Serious assault

0.6

0.5

0.6

0.7

0.8

0.7

0.6

1.0

0.7

0.3

Robbery

4.3

2.7

2.8

2.4

3.6

2.4

2.5

3.2

2.3

2.1

Vandalism

0.6

0.4

0.4

0.4

0.3

0.3

0.3

0.4

0.3

0.3

Minor assault

0.5

0.4

0.4

0.3

0.4

0.4

0.4

0.2

0.3

0.2

(1) Some of the figures in this table are based on fewer than 100 recorded cases.

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