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Appendix table 1. Development of certain types of offences in 2017 to 2021 (preliminary data)

Offence	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021 2)
1) Offences and infractions total 1)	861,921	873,415	818,528	686,045	497,277
2) Offences against the Criminal Code	438,373	443,525	452,771	543,429	478,568
A. Offences against property	210,773	206,961	216,007	256,468	221,486
Burglaries total	29,754	28,254	29,887	34,800	30,842
Breaking into a residence	4,770	4,922	4,534	4,722	3,897
- into a free-time residence	1,512	1,200	1,192	1,356	942
- into another residence	3,258	3,722	3,342	3,366	2,955
Breaking into business premises	3,034	2,927	2,965	3,064	2,446
Breaking into a motor vehicle	7,650	6,972	7,449	8,762	8,201
Other burglaries	14,300	13,433	14,939	18,252	16,298
Unauthorised uses and thefts of a motor vehicle, thefts of use of a motor vehicle, total	6,103	5,795	5,732	6,226	5,143
Robberies total	1,640	1,701	1,809	1,996	1,909
Damages to property total	33,466	30,448	30,519	33,443	31,479
Embezzlements total	3,149	3,385	3,514	3,230	3,220
Frauds total	23,380	24,483	28,653	34,039	35,777
- aggravated fraud	1,429	1,692	2,054	2,020	1,912
B. Crimes against life and health	35,744	36,074	36,227	35,912	36,134
Manslaughter, murder or killing	73	85	72	86	86
Attempted manslaughter, murder or killing	348	355	329	383	382
Assaults total	33,535	33,639	33,849	33,285	33,762
- aggravated assault	1,581	1,609	1,584	1,754	1,649
C. Sexual crimes	3,269	3,779	4,305	4,392	5,276
Sexual abuse of a child	1,168	1,373	1,709	1,770	2,055
Rape	1,245	1,393	1,477	1,450	1,806
D. Crimes against public authority and public peace	12,355	12,482	12,715	13,067	12,559
(Violent) resisting of an official in the performance of his duties	1,723	1,895	1,966	2,044	1,911
Impeding an official	1,525	1,542	1,472	1,351	1,295
L. Traffic offences	110,292	116,411	110,660	132,434	133,625
Drunken driving total	17,685	19,006	18,498	20,216	17,490
Narcotics offences total	27,777	29,140	32,307	37,077	27,955
- aggravated narcotics offence	1,282	1,251	1,548	1,447	1,511

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 2021, 4. quarter

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Updated 19.1.2022