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Appendix table 1. Development of certain types of offences in January to September 2014 to 2018 (preliminary data)

Offence	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
1) Offences and infractions total	614,666	620,772	628,139	662,662	639,752
2) Offences against the Criminal Code	368,278	357,212	359,854	335,260	331,890
3) Offences A to F	319,581	311,459	317,594	298,439	293,103
A. Offences against property	185,434	178,326	178,643	162,460	154,478
Burglaries total	25,663	25,815	24,330	22,793	20,997
Breaking into a residence	4,795	4,496	4,097	3,665	3,700
- into a free-time residence	1,449	1,278	965	1,237	902
- into another residence	3,346	3,218	3,132	2,428	2,798
Breaking into business premises	3,073	3,111	2,576	2,348	2,231
Breaking into a motor vehicle	6,993	7,239	6,493	5,871	5,150
Other burglaries	10,802	10,969	11,164	10,909	9,916
Unauthorised uses and thefts of a motor vehicle, thefts of use of a motor vehicle, total	6,058	5,920	5,277	4,849	4,450
Robberies total	1,264	1,165	1,238	1,257	1,315
Damages to property total	33,121	28,737	27,289	26,087	23,046
Embezzlements total	2,318	2,095	2,232	2,346	2,516
Frauds total	17,529	19,464	19,270	17,316	17,769
- aggravated fraud	959	1,093	1,052	1,071	1,289
B. Crimes against life and health	26,754	26,772	27,048	26,804	26,684
Manslaughter, murder or killing	76	64	54	57	57
Attempted manslaughter, murder or killing	253	213	233	280	263
Assaults total	24,963	25,035	25,269	25,100	24,894
- aggravated assault	1,212	1,166	1,147	1,209	1,262
C. Sexual crimes	2,245	2,092	2,520	2,367	2,760
Sexual abuse of a child	1,081	883	945	866	1,005
Rape	760	752	852	924	980
D. Crimes against public authority and public peace	9,476	9,393	10,221	9,053	9,132
(Violent) resisting of an official in the performance of his duties	1,287	1,255	1,421	1,301	1,414
Impeding an official	1,413	1,344	1,399	1,134	1,125
E. Certain traffic offences	34,939	34,551	34,348	34,719	36,781
Drunken driving total	13,327	13,466	13,098	13,417	14,225
F. Other offences	60,733	60,325	64,814	63,036	63,268
Narcotics offences total	16,082	18,039	18,868	20,750	21,705
- aggravated narcotics offence	892	850	851	956	871
Alcohol offence/Minor alcohol offence	3,022	2,681	2,492	1,451	1,341
4) Endangerment of traffic safety, hit-and-run, traffic infraction, violation of social welfare legislation on road traffic and motor vehicle infraction	295,085	309,313	310,545	364,223	346,649
- exceeding speed limits 1)	205,598	221,863	223,238	289,919	273,130

1) 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 2018, 3. quarter

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Updated 18.12.2018