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| Crimes and offences recorded per 10,000 population 1, percentage change in total number recorded and percentage cleared up by police force area, 2000 |
Table 5 | ||||||||
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Number & Percentage | |||||||||
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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 |
| Total offences | 24,254 |
19,507 | 39,893 | 46,325 | 79,360 |
23,261 | 232,539 | 34,453 | 499,592 |
| Total crimes and offences | 40,538 |
27,319 | 66,689 | 93,359 | 160,592 |
36,514 | 433,688 | 64,065 | 922,764 |
| Crimes and offences per 10,000 population 1 | |||||||||
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Total crimes | 587 | 532 | 767 |
895 | 918 | 476 | 887 |
763 | 827 |
| Non-sexual crimes of violence | 22 |
21 | 30 | 35 |
42 | 24 | 62 |
30 | 46 |
| Crimes of indecency | 6 |
9 | 9 | 10 |
11 | 7 | 13 |
11 | 11 |
| Crimes of dishonesty | 361 |
319 | 488 | 609 |
592 | 249 | 528 |
463 | 510 |
| Fire-raising, vandalism etc | 117 |
127 | 175 | 172 |
177 | 131 | 161 |
182 | 163 |
| Other crimes |
80 | 56 | 65 |
69 | 96 | 65 |
122 | 76 | 98 |
| Total offences |
874 | 1,329 | 1,142 | 882 |
897 | 835 | 1,025 | 887 |
976 |
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Miscellaneous offences | 251 | 206 |
231 | 278 | 232 |
265 | 362 | 285 |
300 |
| Motor vehicle offences | 623 | 1,123 |
912 | 604 | 664 |
570 | 663 | 602 |
675 |
| Total crimes and offences | 1,460 | 1,861 | 1,910 |
1,777 | 1,815 | 1,311 | 1,912 |
1,650 | 1,803 |
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Percentage change in total number recorded, 1999-00 | |||||||||
| Total crimes | -7.6 | -8.1 | 0.6 | -2.2 | -1.9 | 2.6 | -2.8 | -8.1 | -2.9 |
| Non-sexual crimes of violence | -5.5 | 8.9 | 23.1 |
17.7 | 15.5 | 10.9 | -6.6 |
-10.2 | -0.4 |
| Crimes of indecency | 40.3 |
-6.9 | -8.6 | -16.6 | -11.2 |
8.2 | 1.8 | -17.2 | -3.8 |
| Crimes of dishonesty |
-10.8 | -6.4 | -1.1 | -1.7 |
-3.4 | 3.6 | -7.6 | -7.7 |
-5.5 |
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Fire-raising, vandalism etc | -4.9 | -1.0 | 5.8 |
-2.3 | -3.8 | 12.1 | 12.6 |
-2.4 | 4.6 |
| Other crimes |
1.0 | -30.6 | -6.6 | -11.0 |
6.6 | -17.4 | 3.5 | -19.3 |
-1.2 |
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Total offences | -10.0 | -7.8 | 26.4 | -6.8 | 2.2 | -6.2 | -2.2 | -1.2 | -1.0 |
| Miscellaneous offences | 6.3 | -15.4 |
3.2 | -6.2 | 8.7 | -8.9 |
3.7 | -1.8 | 1.8 |
| Motor vehicle offences | -15.2 |
-6.2 | 34.1 | -7.1 | 0.1 |
-4.9 | -5.2 | -0.9 | -2.2 |
| Total crimes and offences | -9.0 | -7.9 | 14.6 | -4.5 | 0.1 | -3.2 | -2.5 | -4.5 | -1.8 |
| Percentage cleared up | |||||||||
| Total crimes | 57 | 52 |
44 | 34 | 47 |
56 | 44 | 42 |
44 |
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Non-sexual crimes of violence | 92 | 91 |
81 | 63 | 73 |
95 | 70 | 90 |
73 |
| Crimes of indecency | 90 |
93 | 81 | 69 |
65 | 86 | 78 |
94 | 77 |
| Crimes of dishonesty | 49 |
46 | 40 | 28 |
43 | 50 | 34 |
35 | 37 |
| Fire-raising, vandalism etc | 43 |
37 | 28 | 21 |
22 | 35 | 21 |
22 | 24 |
| Other crimes |
100 | 100 | 100 |
98 | 100 | 100 |
100 | 103 | 100 |
| Miscellaneous offences |
96 | 92 | 90 |
78 | 83 | 97 |
90 | 96 | 89 |
1. The mid-year population estimate for 1999 was used since, at the time of publication, the 2000 estimate was not available.
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