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Appendix table 1. Number of certain types of offences in January to March 2012 to 2016 (preliminary data)

Offence	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
1) Offences and infractions total	205,191	211,557	190,467	196,265	182,970
2) Offences against the Criminal Code	108,504	105,721	111,990	106,467	102,377
3) Offences A to F	92,658	90,361	95,299	91,062	89,332
A. Offences against property	49,288	48,081	54,624	50,663	48,761
Burglaries total	6,748	6,143	7,377	7,026	6,459
Breaking into a residence	1,162	1,019	1,368	1,183	1,117
- into a free-time residence	251	199	438	280	203
- into another residence	911	820	930	903	914
Breaking into business premises	773	772	881	882	721
Breaking into a motor vehicle	2,376	1,823	2,123	2,069	1,705
Other burglaries	2,437	2,529	3,005	2,892	2,916
Unauthorised uses and thefts of a motor vehicle, thefts of use of a motor vehicle, total	1,500	1,112	1,360	1,337	1,091
Robberies total	376	315	355	379	386
Damages to property total	8,817	8,782	10,474	8,153	6,974
Embezzlements total	791	896	782	711	680
Frauds total	5,451	5,817	6,395	6,878	6,388
- aggravated fraud	255	320	330	475	353
B. Crimes against life and health	9,297	8,793	8,307	8,067	8,250
Manslaughter, murder or killing	22	24	25	19	19
Attempted manslaughter, murder or killing	83	53	76	68	65
Assaults total	8,760	8,323	7,809	7,602	7,808
- aggravated assault	428	426	375	364	392
C. Sexual crimes	1,061	821	744	743	840
Sexual exploitation of a child	375	362	392	334	344
Rape	255	208	221	247	247
D. Crimes against public authority and public peace	3,526	3,215	3,066	3,085	3,130
(Violent) resisting of an official in the performance of his duties	481	408	450	414	391
Impeding an official	523	459	476	429	425
E. Certain traffic offences	10,423	9,607	10,153	9,536	9,476
Drunken driving total	4,048	3,815	3,740	3,761	3,711
F. Other offences	19,063	19,844	18,405	18,968	18,875
Narcotics offences total	5,029	5,825	5,066	5,789	5,921
- aggravated narcotics offence	268	294	265	313	294
Alcohol offence/Minor alcohol offence	732	790	622	482	362
4) Endangerment of traffic safety, hit-and-run, traffic infraction, violation of social welfare legislation on road traffic and motor vehicle infraction 1)	112,533	121,196	95,168	105,203	93,638
- exceeding speed limits 2)	71,932	85,967	63,962	75,836	57,586

1) Problems connected to the re-organisation of automatic traffic control brought about a substantial fall in the number of traffic offences recorded in the early part of 2014 compared with 2013. Exceeding speed limits towards the end of 2012 were recorded erroneously in the early part of 2013.
2) Cases of exceeding speed limits registered as endangerment of traffic safety, aggravated endangerment of traffic safety and traffic infractions.

Source: Statistics on offences and coercive measures 2016, 1. quarter

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Updated 20.4.2016