{"id":1337433,"date":"2024-06-26T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.agriland.ie\/?p=1337433"},"modified":"2024-06-26T17:12:31","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T16:12:31","slug":"cso-18-increase-in-theft-in-northwest-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lightsail.agriland.ie\/farming-news\/cso-18-increase-in-theft-in-northwest-region\/","title":{"rendered":"CSO: 18% increase in theft in north-west region"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There has been an 18% increase in theft and related offences in the north-west region, according to new data from the Central Statistics Office (CSO).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report on crimes recorded in the first quarter (Q1) of this year also shows a rise in these offences in other regions when compared to the first three months of 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Theft and related offences were up by 15% in the eastern region, 9% in the south and by 5% in the Dublin Metropolitan region in the year to Q1 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CSO<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Robbery, extortion and hijacking offences had the largest increase in the eastern (24%) and southern (21%) regions, followed by a rate of 16% in the Dublin Metropolitan and north-western regions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fraud, deception and related offences were up by 21% in the eastern region and by 15% in the north-west.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By contrast, sexual offences fell across all regions, with the largest decrease (16%) in the Dublin Metropolitan region, followed by the eastern (14%) and southern (13%) regions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lowest rate of decrease was in the north-west region at 3%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Offences against government, justice procedures and organisation of crime (mainly offences while in custody and breach of court orders), also dropped across all regions, the largest rate of decrease (21%) was in the southern region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crime<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Jim Dalton, statistician in the CSO crime and criminal justice section, said that overall the data<\/a> showed that robbery, weapons, theft and fraud crimes were up in the year to Q1 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The number of recorded incidents of robbery, extortion and hijacking offences increased by 18% or 390 to 2,572 in the year to Q1 2024 compared to the same period in 2023. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This was driven mostly by a rise in incidents of blackmail or extortion and robbery from the person offences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Incidents of weapons and explosives offences were up by 10% or 253 to 2,844 incidents over the same period,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Theft and related offences were up by 9% or 6,415 to 75,825 incidents, with theft from shops accounting for more than two in five (44%) of these incidents.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

“Recorded crime incidents of fraud, deception and related offences were also up over the period, rising by 9% or 933 to 11,479 incidents. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“There were also increases in incidents relating to burglary and related offences (6%) and attempts\/threats to murder, assaults, harassments and related offences (1%), while those relating to damage to property and to the environment remained unchanged,” he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dalton noted that there was a drop of 8% in homicide and related offences and a 12% fall in sexual offences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Public order and other social code offences and controlled drug offences were down by 5% and 4% respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n