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

Offence	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019 2)
1) Offences and infractions total 1)	620,772	628,139	662,662	659,148	552,525
2) Offences against the Criminal Code	357,212	359,854	335,260	333,283	333,471
A. Offences against property	178,326	178,643	162,460	155,115	158,172
Burglaries total	25,815	24,330	22,793	20,991	21,340
Breaking into a residence	4,496	4,097	3,665	3,681	3,278
- into a free-time residence	1,278	965	1,237	904	853
- into another residence	3,218	3,132	2,428	2,777	2,425
Breaking into business premises	3,111	2,576	2,348	2,229	2,072
Breaking into a motor vehicle	7,239	6,493	5,871	5,169	5,363
Other burglaries	10,969	11,164	10,909	9,912	10,627
Unauthorised uses and thefts of a motor vehicle, thefts of use of a motor vehicle, total	5,920	5,277	4,849	4,436	4,487
Robberies total	1,165	1,238	1,257	1,293	1,302
Damages to property total	28,737	27,289	26,087	23,088	22,761
Embezzlements total	2,095	2,232	2,346	2,491	2,565
Frauds total	19,464	19,270	17,316	18,161	20,698
- aggravated fraud	1,093	1,052	1,071	1,255	1,485
B. Crimes against life and health	26,772	27,048	26,804	26,957	26,653
Manslaughter, murder or killing	64	54	57	55	57
Attempted manslaughter, murder or killing	213	233	280	260	216
Assaults total	25,035	25,269	25,100	25,134	24,927
- aggravated assault	1,166	1,147	1,209	1,233	1,213
C. Sexual crimes	2,092	2,520	2,367	2,763	3,150
Sexual abuse of a child	883	945	866	1,000	1,209
Rape	752	852	924	1,007	1,128
D. Crimes against public authority and public peace	9,393	10,221	9,053	9,356	9,212
(Violent) resisting of an official in the performance of his duties	1,255	1,421	1,301	1,414	1,420
Impeding an official	1,344	1,399	1,134	1,133	1,089
L. Traffic offences	99,119	94,118	85,342	88,428	83,831
Drunken driving total	13,466	13,098	13,417	14,193	14,175
Narcotics offences total	18,039	18,868	20,750	21,801	22,300
- aggravated narcotics offence	850	851	956	888	1,004

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, 3. quarter

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Updated 17.10.2019