Key findings:

• One in four (26%) victims who reported historic incidents of Sexual offences in 2022 were males aged under 18 years when the crime incident occurred. However, when the incident was reported, just 3% of victims were males under 18 years compared to 19% for females.
• In 2022, just over four in five (83%) victims of reported incidents of Sexual offences were female, and over half (51%) of all victims were under 18 when the incident took place.
• Two-thirds (66%) of victims of Sexual offences reported the incident within a year of occurrence in 2022 and one in five (20%) reported the incident more than 10 years after the date of occurrence.
• Males were the victims in seven in ten (71%) reported Homicides in 2022 and nearly six in ten (57%) reported incidents of Physical Assault and Related offences.
• In 2021, males were the suspected offenders for the majority of detected Homicide, Sexual and Physical Assault offences.
• In just over a fifth (22%) of detected Sexual offences in 2021, the suspected offender and victim were both male while three in every four (76%) involved a male suspected offender and female victim.
• Recorded Crime statistics continue to be categorised as Statistics Under Reservation.