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

Offence	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
1) Offences and infractions total	666,912	667,773	614,432	623,181	624,771
2) Offences against the Criminal Code	378,051	372,884	368,057	359,616	356,901
3) Offences A to F	328,529	324,650	319,341	313,820	314,442
A. Offences against property	183,227	183,842	185,315	179,184	176,964
Burglaries total	27,123	24,387	25,638	25,844	24,141
Breaking into a residence	5,002	4,245	4,800	4,514	4,108
- into a free-time residence	1,182	1,242	1,450	1,277	960
- into another residence	3,820	3,003	3,350	3,237	3,148
Breaking into business premises	3,076	2,928	3,072	3,112	2,569
Breaking into a motor vehicle	8,422	7,166	6,989	7,240	6,414
Other burglaries	10,623	10,048	10,777	10,978	11,050
Unauthorised uses and thefts of a motor vehicle, thefts of use of a motor vehicle, total	7,025	6,239	6,058	5,941	5,269
Robberies total	1,247	1,108	1,267	1,170	1,255
Damages to property total	34,160	33,321	33,112	28,816	27,001
Embezzlements total	2,481	2,732	2,312	2,128	2,224
Frauds total	15,917	17,503	17,521	19,929	18,790
- aggravated fraud	807	852	1,124	1,114	993
B. Crimes against life and health	30,830	28,650	26,701	26,993	26,579
Manslaughter, murder or killing	65	73	76	64	59
Attempted manslaughter, murder or killing	276	194	253	213	242
Assaults total	28,804	26,707	24,906	25,241	24,837
- aggravated assault	1,401	1,357	1,215	1,177	1,175
C. Sexual crimes	2,731	2,606	2,258	2,237	2,542
Sexual exploitation of a child	1,181	1,301	1,090	897	945
Rape	809	748	760	767	864
D. Crimes against public authority and public peace	10,991	10,199	9,478	9,525	10,167
(Violent) resisting of an official in the performance of his duties	1,433	1,258	1,289	1,254	1,416
Impeding an official	1,634	1,415	1,410	1,344	1,390
E. Certain traffic offences	37,694	34,682	34,930	34,579	34,352
Drunken driving total	14,915	13,724	13,330	13,501	13,211
F. Other offences	63,056	64,671	60,659	61,302	63,838
Narcotics offences total	15,446	17,181	16,014	18,049	18,514
- aggravated narcotics offence	789	915	871	847	844
Alcohol offence/Minor alcohol offence	3,928	3,860	3,023	2,665	2,476
4) Endangerment of traffic safety, hit-and-run, traffic infraction, violation of social welfare legislation on road traffic and motor vehicle infraction 1)	338,383	343,123	295,091	309,361	310,329
- exceeding speed limits 2)	225,184	243,709	205,601	221,586	222,952

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, 3. quarter

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Updated 18.10.2016