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Recorded Crime Q1 2025

Regional Analysis

Recorded crime incidents fell across all Garda regions for three offence groups in the year to Q1 2025

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CSO statistical release, 02 July 2025, 11am

July 2025 update on Fraud, Deception & Related offences

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 across all Garda regions for three of the fourteen offence groups in the year to Quarter 1 (Q1) 2025. These were:

Robbery, Extortion & Hijacking offences where the highest rates of decrease was for the Eastern (-25%) and Southern (-21%) regions. The rate of decrease was between 6% and 7% for the remaining two regions.
Burglary & Related offences – the highest rate of decrease being for the North Western region (-14%), followed by the Dublin Metropolitan (DMR) and Eastern regions, both at 6%.
Damage to Property & to the Environment where the Southern region showed the largest rate of decrease at 10%, followed by 4% for each of the North Western & Eastern regions.

For all other offence groups, the experience across Garda regions was mixed (See Figure 3.1, Table 3.1, and PxStat Tables CJQ05 & CJQ07).

An Garda Síochána are currently in the process of the rolling out of a new Operation Model. This will involve a fundamental change to the organisational structure from the existing District Based Model to a new Divisional Functional Area Model. Further updates will follow in due course.

	06 Robbery, Extortion & Hijacking offences	07 Burglary & Related offences	12 Damage to Property & to the Environment
Dublin Metropolitan	-6	-6	-1
North Western	-7	-14	-4
Eastern	-25	-1	-4
Southern	-21	-6	-10

Table 3.1 Recorded crime incidents classified by offence group and Garda region, annualised totals, Q1 2024 and Q1 2025

Table 3.1 Recorded crime incidents^1,2classified by offence group and Garda region³, annualised⁴ totals, Q1 2024 and Q1 2025
	Garda region
ICCSq Offence Group	Dublin Metropolitan	North Western⁵	Eastern⁵	Southern	State
Annualised total to Q1 2024
01 Homicide & Related offences	21	33	15	32	101
02 Sexual offences⁶	1,056	743	803	729	3,331
03 Attempts/Threats to Murder, Assaults, Harassments & Related offences	7,954	4,974	5,359	5,674	23,961
04 Dangerous or Negligent Acts	1,601	2,062	2,005	1,903	7,571
05 Kidnapping & Related offences⁶	66	31	33	36	166
06 Robbery, Extortion & Hijacking offences	1,445	274	433	427	2,579
07 Burglary & Related offences	3,945	1,644	2,478	1,735	9,802
08 Theft & Related offences	38,423	8,662	14,706	13,499	75,290
09 Fraud, Deception & Related offences	..	..	..	..	..
10 Controlled Drug offences	6,432	2,223	4,536	3,637	16,828
11 Weapons & Explosives offences	1,289	427	548	589	2,853
12 Damage to Property & to the Environment	9,052	3,803	4,812	4,645	22,312
13 Public Order & Other Social Code offences	10,351	5,786	5,973	6,930	29,040
15 Offences against Government, Justice Procedures & Organisation of Crime	8,733	1,481	2,327	2,439	14,980

Annualised total to Q1 2025
01 Homicide & Related offences	17	13	25	12	67
02 Sexual offences⁶	1,259	840	860	863	3,822
03 Attempts/Threats to Murder, Assaults, Harassments & Related offences	8,663	5,014	5,726	5,287	24,690
04 Dangerous or Negligent Acts	1,658	2,071	1,850	1,913	7,492
05 Kidnapping & Related offences⁶	64	35	24	29	152
06 Robbery, Extortion & Hijacking offences	1,364	254	326	337	2,281
07 Burglary & Related offences	3,722	1,415	2,450	1,630	9,217
08 Theft & Related offences	37,902	8,044	14,696	13,460	74,102
09 Fraud, Deception & Related offences	4,296	2,075	2,556	2,378	11,305
10 Controlled Drug offences	6,668	2,278	4,116	3,219	16,281
11 Weapons & Explosives offences	1,360	460	527	596	2,943
12 Damage to Property & to the Environment	8,925	3,645	4,624	4,181	21,375
13 Public Order & Other Social Code offences	11,907	5,752	6,074	6,728	30,461
15 Offences against Government, Justice Procedures & Organisation of Crime	8,479	1,532	2,140	2,311	14,462

Annualised total change to Q1 2025
01 Homicide & Related offences	-4	-20	10	-20	-34
02 Sexual offences⁶	203	97	57	134	491
03 Attempts/Threats to Murder, Assaults, Harassments & Related offences	709	40	367	-387	729
04 Dangerous or Negligent Acts	57	9	-155	10	-79
05 Kidnapping & Related offences⁶	-2	4	-9	-7	-14
06 Robbery, Extortion & Hijacking offences	-81	-20	-107	-90	-298
07 Burglary & Related offences	-223	-229	-28	-105	-585
08 Theft & Related offences	-521	-618	-10	-39	-1,188
09 Fraud, Deception & Related offences	..	..	..	..	..
10 Controlled Drug offences	236	55	-420	-418	-547
11 Weapons & Explosives offences	71	33	-21	7	90
12 Damage to Property & to the Environment	-127	-158	-188	-464	-937
13 Public Order & Other Social Code offences	1,556	-34	101	-202	1,421
15 Offences against Government, Justice Procedures & Organisation of Crime	-254	51	-187	-128	-518

Annualised total percentage change to Q1 2025
01 Homicide & Related offences	-19	-61	67	-63	-34
02 Sexual offences⁶	19	13	7	18	15
03 Attempts/Threats to Murder, Assaults, Harassments & Related offences	9	1	7	-7	3
04 Dangerous or Negligent Acts	4	0	-8	1	-1
05 Kidnapping & Related offences⁶	-3	13	-27	-19	-8
06 Robbery, Extortion & Hijacking offences	-6	-7	-25	-21	-12
07 Burglary & Related offences	-6	-14	-1	-6	-6
08 Theft & Related offences	-1	-7	0	0	-2
09 Fraud, Deception & Related offences	..	..	..	..	..
10 Controlled Drug offences	4	2	-9	-11	-3
11 Weapons & Explosives offences	6	8	-4	1	3
12 Damage to Property & to the Environment	-1	-4	-4	-10	-4
13 Public Order & Other Social Code offences	15	-1	2	-3	5
15 Offences against Government, Justice Procedures & Organisation of Crime	-3	3	-8	-5	-3
¹ Based on data extracted 01 June 2025.
² Data may be subject to revision.
³ These figures reflect recorded crime according to new Garda regions which became operational during Q4 2019.
⁴The annualised figure for a given quarter is the total number of crimes recorded in the 12 months prior to end of that quarter.
⁵ From 28 January 2024, policing services were transferred from the Laytown sub-district in the Meath Division to the Drogheda sub-district in the Louth Division. This also means that from this date policing services that were in the Laytown sub-district have moved from the Eastern to the North Western Garda region.
⁶ Kidnapping & Related offences figures for 2022 have been revised due to reclassification of some crime incidents to Sexual offences.
.. ‘09 Fraud, Deception & Related offences’ from Q3 2023 onwards has been revised due to the effect of the backlog in processing suspected fraud crime incidents reported to the Gardaí by Financial Institutions under Section 19 of the Criminal Justice Act, 2011. It is no longer comparable to those published for the period prior to Q3 2023. Please see information note at the beginning of this chapter.