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 fell in ten of the fourteen offence groups in the year to Quarter 1 (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%) (See Figure 2.1, Table 2.1, and PxStat Tables CJQ01 & CJQ07).
| 01 Homicide & Related offences | 02 Sexual offences | 03 Attempts/Threats to Murder, Assaults, Harassments & Related offences | 04 Dangerous or Negligent Acts | 05 Kidnapping & Related offences | 06 Robbery, Extortion & Hijacking offences | 07 Burglary & Related offences | 08 Theft & Related offences | 10 Controlled Drug offences | 11 Weapons & Explosives offences | 13 Public Order & Other Social Code offences | 15 Offences against Government, Justice Procedures & Organisation of Crime | |
| ICCSq Offence Group | -34 | 15 | 3 | -1 | -8 | -12 | -6 | -2 | -3 | 3 | 5 | -3 |
Table 2.2 compares the number of crime incidents by offence category between Q1 2024 and Q1 2025. The number of recorded crime incidents fell for eight out of the fourteen offence groups between Q1 2024 and Q1 2025.
The largest percentage decrease over this period took place for:
In contrast, the most notable increases in recorded crime incidents over the period were for Sexual offences (+8%), Controlled Drug offences (+4%), and Weapons & Explosives offences (+3%) (See Figure 2.2, Tables 2.1 & 2.2, and PxStat Tables CJQ01 & CJQ07).
| 01 Homicide & Related offences | 02 Sexual offences | 03 Attempts/Threats to Murder, Assaults, Harassments & Related offences | 04 Dangerous or Negligent acts | 05 Kidnapping & Related offences | 06 Robbery, Extortion & Hijacking offences | 07 Burglary & Related offences | 08 Theft & Related offences | 10 Controlled Drug offences | 11 Weapons & Explosives offences | 13 Public Order & Other Social Code offences | 15 Offences Against Government, Justice Procedures & Organisation of Crime | |
| ICCSq Offence Group | -39 | 8 | 1 | 1 | -45 | -14 | -16 | -11 | 4 | 3 | 0 | -15 |
Table 2.3 provides a breakdown by offence type of the total number of recorded crime incidents for the year to Quarter 1 for the years 2022 to 2025. A comparison is also made between data for the year to Q1 2022 and year to Q1 2025.
Over the four year period (2022-2025), 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 for the same period in 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:
| X-axis label | 2022 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| 03 Attempts/Threats to Murder, Assaults, Harassments & Related offences | 22106 | 24690 |
| 04 Dangerous or Negligent Acts | 8503 | 7492 |
| 06 Robbery, Extortion & Hijaking offences | 1833 | 2281 |
| 08 Theft & Related offences | 50921 | 74102 |
| 10 Controlled Drug offences | 17773 | 16281 |
| 15 Offences against Government, Justice Procedures & Organisation of Crime | 13180 | 14462 |
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