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Appendix table 1. Development of certain types of offences in January to June 2015 to 2019 (preliminary data)

Offence	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019 2)
1) Offences and infractions total 1)	398,630	396,331	427,594	424,219	326,543
2) Offences against the Criminal Code	225,831	228,567	210,390	208,669	206,291
A. Offences against property	111,137	111,743	100,135	94,668	94,726
Burglaries total	16,048	15,179	13,962	12,773	12,683
Breaking into a residence	2,815	2,539	2,367	2,158	1,966
- into a free-time residence	838	623	813	535	487
- into another residence	1,977	1,916	1,554	1,623	1,479
Breaking into business premises	1,901	1,680	1,538	1,352	1,279
Breaking into a motor vehicle	4,519	3,962	3,508	3,068	3,168
Other burglaries	6,813	6,998	6,549	6,195	6,270
Unauthorised uses and thefts of a motor vehicle, thefts of use of a motor vehicle, total	3,435	2,939	2,658	2,445	2,577
Robberies total	777	772	773	804	803
Damages to property total	18,281	16,626	16,069	14,427	13,586
Embezzlements total	1,321	1,433	1,540	1,543	1,590
Frauds total	12,839	12,691	11,322	12,008	13,132
- aggravated fraud	789	725	698	894	940
B. Crimes against life and health	17,362	17,656	17,549	17,098	16,879
Manslaughter, murder or killing	46	36	37	34	41
Attempted manslaughter, murder or killing	138	153	166	152	137
Assaults total	16,293	16,553	16,519	16,034	15,845
- aggravated assault	766	746	775	769	782
C. Sexual crimes	1,423	1,621	1,570	1,732	2,036
Sexual abuse of a child	629	649	585	662	813
Rape	481	508	625	594	715
D. Crimes against public authority and public peace	6,115	6,867	5,721	6,158	5,957
(Violent) resisting of an official in the performance of his duties	841	917	809	897	944
Impeding an official	888	888	696	743	705
L. Traffic offences	62,813	59,746	53,699	55,778	53,156
Drunken driving total	8,544	8,459	8,387	9,133	9,385
Narcotics offences total	11,749	12,362	13,024	14,432	14,250
- aggravated narcotics offence	574	578	634	642	722

1) Fines from automatic traffic control are updated into the police PATJA system with a delay of around 80 days, which has an effect on the number of traffic infractions in particular.
2) Preliminary data

Source: Statistics on offences and coercive measures 2019, 2. quarter

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Updated 12.07.2019