Recorded Crime Statistics
The dissemination of statistical information in crimes recorded on PULSE, the crime database of An Garda Síochána, the Police Service of Ireland. Such data includes information on recorded crime incidents, detection of crimes and the age and gender profile of crime victims and suspected offenders in respect of serious crime offences. The Central Statistics Office (CSO) obtains this data under Section 47 of the Garda Síochána Act, 2005.
Our results are only ever made available to the public in aggregate form and we make sure that it is impossible for individuals to be identified.
There is wide usage of this data by An Garda Síochána, the Department of Justice Equality and Law Reform, Houses of the Oireachtas, Agencies (e.g. RCNI (Rape Crisis Network Ireland), COSC (The National Office for the Prevention of Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence), the general public and researchers.
Yes, all personal information supplied to the CSO is treated as strictly confidential. The confidentiality of data is provided for under sections 32, 33, and 34 of the Statistics Act, 1993, which sets stringent confidentiality standards. These include the use of data for statistical purposes only, and the non-disclosure of data in an identifiable form to any government department or body.
The data collected will be retained for a maximum of two years.
Pulse, the crime database of An Garda Síochána.
Jim Dalton, Crime and Criminal Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Skehard Road, Cork, T12 X00E.
Tel: +(353) 21 453 5423 E-mail: crime@cso.ie
Under the General Data Protection Regulation, you have the following rights:
However, because your data is processed for statistical purposes these rights may be limited in accordance with Article 89 of the GDPR. This is due to the fact that the exercise of any of these rights may render impossible, or seriously impair, the achievement of the statistical processing and such restriction maybe necessary for the fulfillment of those purposes.
