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Appendix table 1. Development of certain types of offences in 2013 to 2017 (preliminary data) Corrected on 13 April 2018.

Corrected on 13 April 2018. The corrected numbers are indicated in red.
Offence	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017
1) Offences and infractions total	868,971	827,789	818,514	823,056	854,397
2) Offences against the Criminal Code	489,501	481,699	474,043	466,779	438,210
3) Offences A to F	424,434	417,479	412,862	411,893	390,584
A. Offences against property	240,359	241,163	235,980	230,460	210,720
Burglaries total	32,529	33,954	34,121	33,285	29,742
Breaking into a residence	5,763	6,373	5,987	5,303	4,766
- into a free-time residence	1,794	1,839	1,683	1,221	1,509
- into another residence	3,969	4,534	4,304	4,082	3,257
Breaking into business premises	3,837	4,039	4,076	3,328	3,033
Breaking into a motor vehicle	9,586	9,237	9,442	8,659	7,648
Other burglaries	13,343	14,305	14,616	15,995	14,295
Unauthorised uses and thefts of a motor vehicle, thefts of use of a motor vehicle, total	7,960	7,778	7,462	6,708	6,106
Robberies total	1,531	1,700	1,558	1,692	1,639
Damages to property total	43,371	42,512	37,585	35,287	33,434
Embezzlements total	3,564	3,077	2,876	2,927	3,152
Frauds total	22,751	23,428	25,845	25,087	23,379
- aggravated fraud	1,096	1,518	1,443	1,401	1,424
B. Crimes against life and health	37,861	35,066	36,141	35,990	35,731
Manslaughter, murder or killing	100	102	97	81	73
Attempted manslaughter, murder or killing	268	328	303	318	349
Assaults total	35,355	32,763	33,803	33,669	33,527
- aggravated assault	1,809	1,651	1,585	1,597	1,588
C. Sexual crimes	3,329	3,013	3,099	3,365	3,269
Sexual exploitation of a child	1,673	1,429	1,237	1,260	1,170
Rape	977	1,009	1,063	1,172	1,242
D. Crimes against public authority and public peace	13,649	12,567	12,863	13,358	12,356
(Violent) resisting of an official in the performance of his duties	1,685	1,707	1,715	1,884	1,720
Impeding an official	1,914	1,856	1,806	1,848	1,525
E. Certain traffic offences	45,248	45,527	44,941	44,755	45,071
Drunken driving total	18,053	17,662	17,698	17,378	17,700
F. Other offences	83,988	80,143	79,838	83,965	83,437
Narcotics offences total	22,604	21,689	23,345	25,078	27,765
- aggravated narcotics offence	1,226	1,132	1,056	1,181	1,281
Alcohol offence/Minor alcohol offence	4,566	3,689	3,187	2,873	1,808
4) Endangerment of traffic safety, hit-and-run, traffic infraction, violation of social welfare legislation on road traffic and motor vehicle infraction	444,537	410,310	405,652	411,163	463,813
- exceeding speed limits 1)	315,846	293,730	290,972	298,708	367,760

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 2017, 4. quarter

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Updated 16.3.2018