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

Offence	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
1) Offences and infractions total	860,026	868,971	827,789	818,514	823,056
2) Offences against the Criminal Code	491,376	489,501	481,699	474,043	466,779
3) Offences A to F	424,835	424,434	417,479	412,862	411,893
A. Offences against property	237,422	240,359	241,163	235,980	230,460
Burglaries total	35,130	32,529	33,954	34,121	33,285
Breaking into a residence	6,294	5,763	6,373	5,987	5,303
- into a free-time residence	1,479	1,794	1,839	1,683	1,221
- into another residence	4,815	3,969	4,534	4,304	4,082
Breaking into business premises	4,010	3,837	4,039	4,076	3,328
Breaking into a motor vehicle	10,741	9,586	9,237	9,442	8,659
Other burglaries	14,085	13,343	14,305	14,616	15,995
Unauthorised uses and thefts of a motor vehicle, thefts of use of a motor vehicle, total	8,813	7,960	7,778	7,462	6,708
Robberies total	1,648	1,531	1,700	1,558	1,692
Damages to property total	44,373	43,371	42,512	37,585	35,287
Embezzlements total	3,272	3,564	3,077	2,876	2,927
Frauds total	20,835	22,751	23,428	25,845	25,087
- aggravated fraud	1,033	1,096	1,518	1,443	1,401
B. Crimes against life and health	40,460	37,861	35,066	36,141	35,990
Manslaughter, murder or killing	91	100	102	97	81
Attempted manslaughter, murder or killing	354	268	328	303	318
Assaults total	37,857	35,355	32,763	33,803	33,669
- aggravated assault	1,884	1,809	1,651	1,585	1,597
C. Sexual crimes	3,576	3,329	3,013	3,099	3,365
Sexual exploitation of a child	1,590	1,673	1,429	1,237	1,260
Rape	1,020	977	1,009	1,063	1,172
D. Crimes against public authority and public peace	14,375	13,649	12,567	12,863	13,358
(Violent) resisting of an official in the performance of his duties	1,857	1,685	1,707	1,715	1,884
Impeding an official	2,182	1,914	1,856	1,806	1,848
E. Certain traffic offences	47,960	45,248	45,527	44,941	44,755
Drunken driving total	19,166	18,053	17,662	17,698	17,378
F. Other offences	81,042	83,988	80,143	79,838	83,965
Narcotics offences total	20,041	22,604	21,689	23,345	25,078
- aggravated narcotics offence	1,020	1,226	1,132	1,056	1,181
Alcohol offence/Minor alcohol offence	4,598	4,566	3,689	3,187	2,873
4) Endangerment of traffic safety, hit-and-run, traffic infraction, violation of social welfare legislation on road traffic and motor vehicle infraction 1)	435,191	444,537	410,310	405,652	411,163
- exceeding speed limits 2)	288,522	315,846	293,730	290,972	298,708

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, 4. quarter

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Updated 19.1.2017