Recorded crime Q4 2024 (published March 2025): Key findings - The number of incidents involving Controlled Drug offences were also down over the year, falling by 7% to 16,119 incidents in 2024. This drop was driven largely by decreases in crime incidents involving possession of drugs for sale or supply or for personal use. Increases were noted in the number of incidents in 2024 involving Sexual offences (+8%), Weapons & Explosives offences (+5%), Public Order & Other Social Code offences (+5%), Theft & Related offences (+3%), Attempts/Threats to Murder, Assaults, Harassments & Related offences (+3%), and Burglary & Related offences (+2%)...

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Recorded crime Q3 2024 (published March 2025): The Recorded Crime Q3 2024 release was due to be published in December 2024 but was postponed to allow the CSO engage with An Garda Síochána (AGS) regarding a reported backlog in the recording of potential fraud related crime incidents reported by financial Institutions under Section 19 of the Criminal Justice Act, 2011 on the PULSE system. Users should be aware that as a result, the Fraud, Deception & Related offences crime series pre and post Q3 2023 are no longer comparable, and this release, Recorded Crime Q3 2024, contains a revised Fraud, Deception and Related Offences series from Q3 2023 onwards based only on fraud crime incidents reported directly to AGS by members of the public.

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Recorded crime Q2 2024 (published September 2024): The number of recorded crime incidents involving Fraud, Deception & Related offences increased by a fifth (+21% or by 2,153 incidents) in the year to Quarter 2 (Q2) 2024.

Recorded crime incidents of Burglary & Related offences were up by 9% or 838 incidents, while those involving Robbery, Extortion & Hijacking offences and Weapons & Explosives offences were each up by 8% over the period. Analysis of Theft & Related offences, which were up by 8% or by 5,354 incidents in the 12 months to Q2 2024, showed that nearly half (49%) of such incidents involved theft from a shop. By contrast, there were decreases in the number of incidents involving Homicide & Related offences (-15%), Offences against Government, Justice Procedures & Organisation of Crime (-13%), Sexual offences (-12%), and Controlled Drug offences (-7%). Victims of Attempts/Threats to Murder, Assaults, Harassments & Related offences fell by 3% in Q2 2024 when compared with Q2 2023. The number of male victims fell by 4% and the number of female victims was down by 2%.

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Quarter 1, 2024 (published June 2024): The number of recorded incidents of Robbery, Extortion & Hijacking offences increased by 18% or 390 to 2,572 in the year to Q1 2024 compared to the same period in 2023. Incidents involving Public Order & Other Social Code offences and Controlled Drug offences were down by 5% and 4% respectively. See Figure 2.1 and Tables 2.1 & 4.1.

The data shows that burglary, fraud, drug, and offences against government crime levels in the year to Q1 2024 have remained quite different to pre COVID-19 levels. The number of crime incidents involving Controlled Drug offences increased from 22,005 to 23,968 between 2020 and 2021 before falling to 17,781 in 2022. There was not much change in 2023 at 17,614 but those crime incidents fell to 16,874 in 2024.