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Appendix table 1. Development of certain types of offences in 2014 to 2018 (preliminary data)

Offence	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
1) Offences and infractions total	828,296	817,307	823,449	861,921	803,298
2) Offences against the Criminal Code	482,050	472,646	466,858	438,373	439,201
3) Offences A to F	417,898	411,525	411,725	390,719	388,419
A. Offences against property	241,326	235,945	230,174	210,773	205,058
Burglaries total	33,972	34,178	33,251	29,754	28,137
Breaking into a residence	6,363	5,969	5,300	4,770	4,939
- into a free-time residence	1,840	1,684	1,227	1,512	1,199
- into another residence	4,523	4,285	4,073	3,258	3,740
Breaking into business premises	4,044	4,081	3,329	3,034	2,927
Breaking into a motor vehicle	9,253	9,484	8,654	7,650	6,898
Other burglaries	14,312	14,644	15,968	14,300	13,373
Unauthorised uses and thefts of a motor vehicle, thefts of use of a motor vehicle, total	7,773	7,435	6,700	6,103	5,817
Robberies total	1,689	1,546	1,673	1,640	1,738
Damages to property total	42,516	37,705	35,170	33,466	30,282
Embezzlements total	3,075	2,832	2,924	3,149	3,355
Frauds total	23,515	25,526	25,065	23,380	23,827
- aggravated fraud	1,351	1,441	1,422	1,429	1,647
B. Crimes against life and health	35,236	36,005	36,094	35,744	35,564
Manslaughter, murder or killing	101	96	78	73	90
Attempted manslaughter, murder or killing	327	299	311	348	354
Assaults total	32,928	33,661	33,769	33,535	33,180
- aggravated assault	1,645	1,563	1,592	1,581	1,641
C. Sexual crimes	3,001	2,955	3,327	3,269	3,720
Sexual abuse of a child	1,416	1,225	1,242	1,168	1,363
Rape	1,009	1,043	1,160	1,245	1,338
D. Crimes against public authority and public peace	12,592	12,743	13,399	12,355	12,192
(Violent) resisting of an official in the performance of his duties	1,704	1,717	1,883	1,723	1,900
Impeding an official	1,863	1,809	1,852	1,525	1,531
E. Certain traffic offences	45,557	44,923	44,759	45,088	48,587
Drunken driving total	17,608	17,620	17,308	17,685	19,130
F. Other offences	80,186	78,954	83,972	83,490	83,298
Narcotics offences total	21,781	23,410	25,082	27,777	28,913
- aggravated narcotics offence	1,161	1,071	1,179	1,282	1,231
Alcohol offence/Minor alcohol offence	3,686	3,214	2,876	1,811	1,663
4) Endangerment of traffic safety, hit-and-run, traffic infraction, violation of social welfare legislation on road traffic and motor vehicle infraction	410,398	405,782	411,724	471,202	414,879
- exceeding speed limits 1)	293,752	291,351	299,312	375,140	320,045

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 2018, 4. quarter

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Updated 17.01.2019