Recorded Crime in Scotland,1998: Cr/1999/3 :16

Recorded Crime in Scotland,1998: Cr/1999/3

Crimes and offences recorded per 10,000 population ¹, percentage change in total number recorded and percentage cleared up by police force area, 1998	Table 5
Number & Percentage

	Central	Dumfries & Galloway	Fife	Grampian	Lothian & Borders	Northern	Strathclyde	Tayside	SCOTLAND

Total crimes	17,066	8,706	23,632	45,811	70,460	12,252	220,584	33,040	431,551
Total offences	24,028	22,615	47,460	55,988	80,395	23,474	229,213	32,623	515,796
Total crimes and offences	41,094	31,321	71,092	101,799	150,855	35,726	449,797	65,663	947,347
*Crimes and offences per 10,000 population*¹
Total crimes	619	591	678	867	802	438	971	842	842

Non-sexual crimes of violence	22	22	19	23	32	18	60	36	41
Crimes of indecency	8	9	9	17	14	9	17	14	14
Crimes of dishonesty	397	350	417	575	529	242	619	521	538
Fire-raising, vandalism etc	112	117	148	169	168	100	157	179	155
Other crimes	80	92	86	82	59	69	118	92	95

Total offences	872	1,535	1,362	1,060	915	839	1,009	831	1,007

Miscellaneous offences	237	256	251	292	213	307	357	275	300
Motor vehicle offences	635	1,279	1,111	767	703	532	651	556	707

Total crimes and offences	1,491	2,126	2,041	1,927	1,718	1,277	1,979	1,673	1,849
*Percentage change in total number recorded in total, 1997-98*
Total crimes	*9.0*	*4.2*	*3.3*	*3.3*	*-1.5*	*	*4.6*	*-5.2*	*2.6*

Non-sexual crimes of violence	-1.4	-18.7	2.3	7.2	1.3	11.6	15.4	1.1	*10.0*
Crimes of indecency	-4.3	43.0	-16.9	2.6	6.3	35.6	3.4	1.4	*3.7*
Crimes of dishonesty	14.4	12.1	3.5	4.2	-1.1	*	5.3	-8.7	*3.1*
Fire-raising, vandalism etc	-6.7	5.0	*	*	1.6	9.1	-5.2	-2.4	*-2.3*
Other crimes	13.8	-15.8	12.4	3.2	-14.5	-14.9	11.6	9.2	*5.1*

Total offences	*-2.0*	*15.4*	*10.7*	*7.9*	*9.2*	*-2.3*	*4.6*	*4.3*	*5.9*

Miscellaneous offences	-3.5	-6.3	6.4	1.0	*	-1.7	-4.0	13.2	*-1.4*
Motor vehicle offences	-1.4	21.0	11.7	10.7	12.5	-2.6	10.1	*	*9.4*

Total crimes and offences	*2.3*	*12.0*	*8.1*	*5.8*	*4.0*	*-1.5*	*4.6*	*-0.7*	*4.4*
*Percentage cleared up*
Total crimes	57	59	50	38	35	64	40	39	41

Non-sexual crimes of violence	92	94	89	70	66	94	63	94	69
Crimes of indecency	88	92	82	80	70	95	76	88	78
Crimes of dishonesty	49	52	45	31	30	57	31	30	33
Fire-raising, vandalism etc	42	40	31	24	19	48	20	20	23
Other crimes	100	100	100	97	100	100	100	100	99

Miscellaneous offences	96	94	94	81	84	98	90	96	90

1. The mid-year population estimate for 1997 was used since, at the time of publication, the 1998 estimate was not available.