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Appendix table 1. Development of certain types of offences in January to June 2016 to 2020 (preliminary data)

Offence	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020 2)
1) Offences and infractions total 1)	396,331	427,594	424,219	402,690	338,951
2) Offences against the Criminal Code	228,567	210,390	208,669	213,486	232,853
A. Offences against property	111,743	100,135	94,668	99,092	107,470
Burglaries total	15,179	13,962	12,773	13,006	15,751
Breaking into a residence	2,539	2,367	2,158	1,956	2,223
- into a free-time residence	623	813	535	490	723
- into another residence	1,916	1,554	1,623	1,466	1,500
Breaking into business premises	1,680	1,538	1,352	1,286	1,438
Breaking into a motor vehicle	3,962	3,508	3,068	3,268	3,738
Other burglaries	6,998	6,549	6,195	6,496	8,352
Unauthorised uses and thefts of a motor vehicle, thefts of use of a motor vehicle, total	2,939	2,658	2,445	2,595	2,591
Robberies total	772	773	804	786	905
Damages to property total	16,626	16,069	14,427	14,083	15,261
Embezzlements total	1,433	1,540	1,543	1,632	1,646
Frauds total	12,691	11,322	12,008	14,510	16,035
- aggravated fraud	725	698	894	1,019	1,013
B. Crimes against life and health	17,656	17,549	17,098	17,322	16,460
Manslaughter, murder or killing	36	37	34	35	51
Attempted manslaughter, murder or killing	153	166	152	125	194
Assaults total	16,553	16,519	16,034	16,256	15,267
- aggravated assault	746	775	769	746	864
C. Sexual crimes	1,621	1,570	1,732	2,091	1,898
Sexual abuse of a child	649	585	662	830	806
Rape	508	625	594	763	674
D. Crimes against public authority and public peace	6,867	5,721	6,158	6,064	6,083
(Violent) resisting of an official in the performance of his duties	917	809	897	974	963
Impeding an official	888	696	743	714	702
L. Traffic offences	59,746	53,699	55,778	54,545	60,175
Drunken driving total	8,459	8,387	9,133	9,205	10,296
Narcotics offences total	12,362	13,024	14,432	14,578	19,567
- aggravated narcotics offence	578	634	642	812	706

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 2020, 2. quarter

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Updated 14.7.2020