Crimes and offences recorded by police force area, 2000

Table 4A

Number

Crime / Offence group

Central

Dumfries & Galloway

Fife

Grampian

Lothian & Borders

Northern

Strathclyde

Tayside

SCOTLAND

Total crimes

16,284

7,812

26,796

47,034

81,232

13,253

201,149

29,612

423,172

Non-sexual crimes of violence

616

306

1,044

1,840

3,719

669

13,988

1,167

23,349

Serious assault etc ¹

248

79

318

468

894

277

4,399

280

6,963

Handling an offensive weapon

219

152

418

438

944

232

5,167

583

8,153

Robbery

74

51

158

272

742

24

2,966

133

4,420

Other

75

24

150

662

1,139

136

1,456

171

3,813

Crimes of indecency

174

134

331

529

932

197

3,048

409

5,754

Sexual assault

65

38

114

205

409

66

750

175

1,822

Lewd and indecent behaviour

96

93

182

215

462

102

1,009

187

2,346

Other

13

3

35

109

61

29

1,289

47

1,586

Crimes of dishonesty

10,025

4,681

17,058

32,014

52,374

6,931

119,860

17,993

260,936

Housebreaking

2,173

1,128

3,387

7,067

6,378

875

24,393

3,311

48,712

Theft by opening a lockfast place (OLP)

410

168

687

1,703

1,787

453

5,636

461

11,305

Theft from a motor vehicle by (OLP)

875

321

2,632

3,649

5,525

240

17,935

2,557

33,734

Theft of a motor vehicle

831

213

1,495

1,820

4,913

527

14,393

2,046

26,238

Shoplifting

1,654

645

1,796

3,209

5,651

694

16,247

2,447

32,343

Other theft

3,088

1,773

4,910

10,256

17,695

2,790

31,989

5,559

78,060

Fraud

644

307

1,781

3,436

6,532

994

6,574

920

21,188

Other

350

126

370

874

3,893

358

2,693

692

9,356

Fire-raising, vandalism etc

3,258

1,863

6,095

9,015

15,701

3,642

36,539

7,079

83,192

Fire-raising

100

63

134

284

506

80

956

241

2,364

Vandalism etc

3,158

1,800

5,961

8,731

15,195

3,562

35,583

6,838

80,828

Other crimes

2,211

828

2,268

3,636

8,506

1,814

27,714

2,964

49,941

Crimes against public justice

921

376

1,020

1,311

3,304

723

9,439

1,336

18,430

Drugs

1,285

448

1,248

2,319

5,198

1,084

18,225

1,624

31,431

Other

5

4

0

6

4

7

50

4

80

Total offences

24,254

19,507

39,893

46,325

79,360

23,261

232,539

34,453

499,592

Miscellaneous offences

6,958

3,024

8,050

14,585

20,573

7,392

82,180

11,058

153,820

Petty assault ¹

2,512

1,209

3,322

5,758

12,916

1,995

23,131

3,908

54,751

Breach of the peace

3,366

1,529

3,669

7,505

6,613

3,917

38,051

5,336

69,986

Drunkenness

157

108

365

211

306

867

5,122

674

7,810

Other

923

178

694

1,111

738

613

15,876

1,140

21,273

Motor vehicle offences

17,296

16,483

31,843

31,740

58,787

15,869

150,359

23,395

345,772

Dangerous and careless driving

391

391

1,741

2,301

1,046

619

5,075

738

12,302

Drunk driving

580

260

654

1,045

1,775

785

4,710

903

10,712

Speeding

6,087

9,963

7,017

11,169

21,015

5,944

43,971

11,584

116,750

Unlawful use of vehicle

3,791

2,792

8,309

7,426

13,661

3,180

39,604

6,450

85,213

Vehicle defect offences

3,497

906

8,168

2,182

6,439

2,372

23,774

984

48,322

Other

2,950

2,171

5,954

7,617

14,851

2,969

33,225

2,736

72,473

Total crimes and offences

40,538

27,319

66,689

93,359

160,592

36,514

433,688

64,065

922,764