Table 9

Crimes Recorded by the Police and Percentage Cleared Up, Scotland, 1997/98 (1)

Crime Category

Central

Dumfries & Galloway

Fife

Grampian

Lothian & Borders

Northern

Strathclyde

Tayside

Scotland

Recorded

% Cleared Up

Recorded

% Cleared Up

Recorded

% Cleared Up

Recorded

% Cleared Up

Recorded

% Cleared Up

Recorded

% Cleared Up

Recorded

Cleared Up

Recorded

% Cleared Up

Recorded

% Cleared Up

Total crime (3)

15,903

56

9,022

62

22,856

47

44,578

41

71,407

35

11,835

67

210,878

37

34,536

38

421,015

40

Non-sexual crimes of violence

616

93

401

94

634

89

1,183

76

2,834

64

466

93

12,047

61

1,451

92

19,632

68

Serious assault etc (2)

277

92

120

93

115

94

348

74

978

66

111

89

3,946

50

347

86

6,242

60

Handling offensive weapons

197

100

200

100

296

98

363

101

610

100

224

100

3,702

99

599

100

6,191

99

Robbery

57

63

26

69

93

46

266

34

719

27

32

50

3,237

24

161

57

4,551

28

Other

85

99

55

89

130

98

246

82

527

70

99

97

1,162

81

344

99

2,648

83

Crimes of indecency

225

85

116

85

383

80

911

76

1,171

63

180

93

3,915

75

513

85

7,414

75

Sexual assault

75

92

42

79

105

85

235

59

441

63

72

94

871

56

194

85

2,035

65

Lewd & libidinous practices

126

78

57

86

260

77

331

65

610

59

85

89

1,283

60

264

82

3,016

66

Other

24

100

17

100

18

94

345

99

120

83

23

100

1,761

96

55

98

2,363

96

Crimes of dishonesty

9,880

48

5,286

54

14,061

40

29,155

33

46,915

31

6,379

59

133,433

27

21,777

29

266,886

31

Housebreaking

2,109

29

1,138

43

3,222

32

6,297

22

7,646

18

969

49

29,865

14

4,390

17

55,636

19

Theft by opening lockfast places

1,544

31

380

33

2,591

34

5,437

17

8,655

13

546

36

27,168

12

4,019

13

50,340

15

Theft of a motor vehicle

1,073

40

237

59

1,154

49

1,440

42

4,263

27

391

78

17,169

23

2,130

24

27,857

27

Shoplifting

1,252

92

676

84

1,336

84

2,735

86

4,776

75

834

93

13,153

75

2,222

74

26,984

78

Other theft

2,824

38

2,053

40

4,474

27

9,686

21

15,892

15

2,649

42

35,525

17

6,868

17

79,971

20

Fraud

601

90

668

89

975

61

2,659

65

2,296

85

744

92

7,388

73

850

73

16,181

75

Other

477

92

134

93

309

88

901

85

3,387

84

246

98

3,165

91

1,298

86

9,917

88

Fire-raising, vandalism etc

3,278

45

1,701

42

5,227

31

9,015

24

14,748

18

2,528

48

37,298

19

7,224

19

81,019

23

Fireraising

78

40

32

50

77

43

270

21

558

17

55

58

1,388

13

254

21

2,712

18

Vandalism etc

3,200

45

1,669

42

5,150

30

8,745

25

14,190

18

2,473

48

35,910

19

6,970

19

78,307

23

Other crimes (3)

1,904

100

1,518

100

2,551

100

4,314

107

5,739

100

2,282

100

24,185

100

3,571

100

46,064

101

Crimes against public justice (3)

775

100

592

100

734

100

1,352

106

1,896

100

762

100

8,931

100

1,500

100

16,542

100

Drugs

1,128

100

910

100

1,817

100

2,959

108

3,828

100

1,511

100

15,217

100

2,065

100

29,435

101

Other

1

100

16

100

0

0

3

67

15

107

9

89

37

84

6

83

87

91

(1) Figures may differ to those already published in the individual Chief Constable's Annual Reports as a result of timing differences in the submission of data to The Scottish Office and the production of the Chief Constables' Reports.

(2) The definition of serious assault was revised at the beginning of 1990. Under the revised definition there would have been some 1,150 fewer non- sexual crimes of violence and a compensating increase in the number of petty assaults in the miscellaneous offences category.

(3) These figures exclude "offending while on bail".