The CSO in December 2024 and March 2025 provided updates to users on the impact on Fraud crime statistics of the backlog in the recording of potential fraud related crime incidents reported to An Garda Síochána by Financial Institutions under Section 19 of the Criminal Justice Act, 2011 on the PULSE system.
The CSO is advised by An Garda Síochána that it continues to work on the backlog of Section 19 referrals from Financial Institutions and is making progress on this issue. In addition, work is ongoing by An Garda Síochána to extend an existing reporting portal to handle Section 19 referrals. This system will improve the consistency and efficiency of the reporting process for Financial Institutions.
In view of this ongoing work, the CSO will continue to publish statistics on recorded incidents of Fraud, Deception & Related offences based on those directly reported to An Garda Síochána by members of the public and recorded on the Garda PULSE system. Therefore, users should continue to exercise caution in the interpretation of published statistics on recorded crime incidents of this offence type as they are below the overall reported level and should be considered incomplete.
The number of recorded crime incidents for most offence groups fell in the year to Quarter 1 (Q1) 2025 compared with the same period in 2024. The most notable decreases were for crime incidents of Homicide & Related offences (-34%), Robbery, Extortion & Hijacking offences (-12%), Kidnapping & Related offences (-8%), and Burglary & Related offences (-6%).
In contrast, there were increases in the number of crime incidents of Sexual offences (+15%), Public Order & Other Social Code offences (+5%), Attempts/Threats to Murder, Assaults, Harassments & Related offences (+3%), and Weapons & Explosive offences (+3%).
The number of recorded crime incidents fell across all Garda regions for three of the fourteen offence groups in the year to Q1 2025. These were Robbery, Extortion & Hijacking offences, Burglary & Related offences, and Damage to Property & to the Environment.
Victims of crime incidents of Attempts/Threats to Murder, Assaults, Harassments & Related offences fell by 1% to 5,370 in Q1 2025 from Q1 2024. The number of male victims fell by 3% and the number of female victims rose by 1%. While there were changes in the number of male and female victims within the different age groups, the overall age profile of male and female victims has remained relatively stable for the Q1 period since 2022.
The CSO in December 2024 and March 2025 provided updates to users on the impact on Fraud crime statistics of the backlog in the recording of potential fraud related crime incidents reported to An Garda Síochána by Financial Institutions under Section 19 of the Criminal Justice Act, 2011 on the PULSE system.
The CSO is advised by An Garda Síochána that it continues to work on the backlog of Section 19 referrals from Financial Institutions and is making progress on this issue. In addition, work is ongoing by An Garda Síochána to extend an existing reporting portal to handle Section 19 referrals. This system will improve the consistency and efficiency of the reporting process for Financial Institutions.
In view of this ongoing work, the CSO will continue to publish statistics on recorded incidents of Fraud, Deception & Related offences based on those directly reported to An Garda Síochána by members of the public and recorded on the Garda PULSE system. Therefore, users should continue to exercise caution in the interpretation of published statistics on recorded crime incidents of this offence type as they are below the overall reported level and should be considered incomplete.
The CSO published its fifth CSO Review of the Quality of Recorded Crime Statistics in October 2023. As part of this review the CSO has lifted the ‘Under Reservation’ designation from all Recorded Crime data disseminated after Quarter 1 (Q1) 2023.
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Statistician's Comment
The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has today (02 July 2025) published Recorded Crime Quarter 1 (Q1) 2025.
Commenting on the release, Jim Dalton, Statistician in the Crime & Criminal Justice Section, said: “Recorded Crime statistics published today for January, February, and March (Q1) 2025 showed that recorded crime incidents fell for most offence groups in the year to Q1 2025 compared with the same period in 2024.
Crime Trends in the Year to Q1 2025
The number of recorded crime incidents fell in ten of the fourteen offence groups in the year to Q1 2025.
The largest percentage decreases were for Homicide & Related offences (-34%), Robbery, Extortion & Hijacking offences (-12%), Kidnapping & Related offences (-8%), and Burglary & Related offences (-6%). There were decreases of between 1% and 4% for the remaining offence groups where there was a fall in the number of recorded crime incidents.
In contrast, there were increases in the number of crime incidents of Sexual offences (+15%), Public Order & Other Social Code offences (+5%), Attempts/Threats to Murder, Assaults, Harassments & Related offences (+3%), and Weapons & Explosive offences (+3%).
Analysis of Changing Crime Trends Since 2022
Over the four-year period from 2022 to 2025, the largest percentage changes in the number of recorded crime incidents have been for Theft & Related offences and Robbery, Extortion & Hijacking offences. In the year to Q1 2025, there were 74,102 recorded crime incidents of Theft & Related offences and this was up by 23,181 incidents, or 46%, since the same period in 2022. The number of crime incidents of Robbery, Extortion & Hijacking offences rose by 24% from 1,833 in the year to Q1 2022 to 2,281 crime incidents in the year to Q1 2025.
Among the other offence groups, there were also notable increases in recorded crime incidents, and these included:
The number of recorded crime incidents did however fall in the following offence groups:
Crime Trends Among Garda Regions in the Year to Q1 2025
The number of recorded crime incidents fell across all Garda regions for three of the fourteen offence groups in the year to Q1 2025. These were:
For all other offence groups, the experience across Garda regions was mixed.
Victims of Assault & Related Offences
The overall number of people recorded as victims of Attempts/Threats to Murder, Assaults, Harassments & Related offences fell by 1% to 5,370 in Q1 2025 compared with Q1 2024. The number of male victims fell by 3% to 3,176 and the number of female victims rose by 1% to 2,194.
Looking at the age profile of victims when the incident occurred, those victims aged 60 years or more showed the largest decrease over the year. Male victims in this age cohort fell by 13% and female victims fell by 8%. Other notable changes were a fall of 6% in male victims both aged under 18 years and 45-59 years at the time of the incident. For female victims, there were increases of 3% and 2% respectively for those in the 30-44 and 45-59 year age groups.
However, the age breakdown of male and female victims has remained relatively stable in Quarter 1 of each year since 2022 (See Table 5.2)."