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Crime and Justice in Northern Ireland

Crime and Justice overview

In 2009/10 there were 109,139 crimes recorded by the PSNI in Northern Ireland or 61 crimes per 1,000 population. Just over a quarter of these crimes were detected by the police through charging or cautioning those responsible. December 2009, January 2010 and February 2010 saw the lowest monthly crime levels since the revised Home Office Counting Rules were introduced in April 1998. There were 7,824 offences recorded in January 2010, 8,055 offences in February 2010 and 8,084 in December 2009. Prior to this the lowest monthly level of crime had been in December 2007 when 8,355 offences were recorded.

More information

Statistical information on Crime and Justice comes from a number of main sources:

1. The Crime Statistics PSNI Annual Statistics publication

2. The Crime Attitude / Prison Statistics Dept of Justice Crime Attitude and Prison Statistics

3. The Court Statistics Annual Judicial Statistics publication

Other key publications

Detailed Crime and Justice small area statistics can also be obtained from the Northern Ireland Neighbourhood Information Service website by clicking here

All official statistical publications on this theme can be found here

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