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

Offence	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
1) Offences and infractions total	428,047	429,476	392,465	400,454	392,726
2) Offences against the Criminal Code	237,148	232,511	234,936	227,620	225,295
3) Offences A to F	205,798	202,209	203,076	198,059	198,417
A. Offences against property	111,989	111,840	116,894	111,770	110,088
Burglaries total	16,218	14,671	16,327	16,069	15,058
Breaking into a residence	2,858	2,471	3,083	2,828	2,553
- into a free-time residence	718	709	1,044	838	627
- into another residence	2,140	1,762	2,039	1,990	1,926
Breaking into business premises	1,818	1,790	1,942	1,901	1,679
Breaking into a motor vehicle	5,096	4,250	4,355	4,521	3,905
Other burglaries	6,446	6,160	6,947	6,819	6,921
Unauthorised uses and thefts of a motor vehicle, thefts of use of a motor vehicle, total	4,083	3,364	3,511	3,444	2,940
Robberies total	816	686	778	779	788
Damages to property total	20,826	20,092	21,267	18,325	16,435
Embezzlements total	1,547	1,766	1,514	1,370	1,420
Frauds total	10,526	11,467	11,773	13,183	12,121
- aggravated fraud	509	576	821	809	634
B. Crimes against life and health	20,255	18,852	17,543	17,537	17,244
Manslaughter, murder or killing	45	48	52	46	41
Attempted manslaughter, murder or killing	188	124	170	139	151
Assaults total	18,996	17,650	16,461	16,453	16,174
- aggravated assault	913	869	781	776	783
C. Sexual crimes	1,934	1,852	1,438	1,562	1,624
Sexual exploitation of a child	806	981	730	646	657
Rape	522	437	467	490	515
D. Crimes against public authority and public peace	7,346	6,776	6,168	6,215	6,437
(Violent) resisting of an official in the performance of his duties	940	837	870	839	896
Impeding an official	1,090	953	912	887	877
E. Certain traffic offences	23,478	21,783	22,179	21,746	21,953
Drunken driving total	9,298	8,705	8,455	8,569	8,580
F. Other offences	40,796	41,106	38,854	39,229	41,071
Narcotics offences total	9,851	11,174	10,351	11,779	12,076
- aggravated narcotics offence	539	535	588	582	560
Alcohol offence/Minor alcohol offence	2,667	2,388	1,983	1,648	1,583
4) Endangerment of traffic safety, hit-and-run, traffic infraction, violation of social welfare legislation on road traffic and motor vehicle infraction 1)	222,249	227,267	189,389	202,395	194,309
- exceeding speed limits 2)	146,701	161,888	129,914	146,407	123,138

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, 2. quarter

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Updated 13.7.2016