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Recorded Crime Q1 2026

Regional Analysis

Recorded crime incidents fell across all Garda regions for 4 of the 15 offence groups in the year to Q1 2026

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CSO statistical release, 25 June 2026, 11am

Fraud Crime Statistics

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 (AGS) by Financial Institutions under Section 19 of the Criminal Justice Act, 2011 on the PULSE system.

The CSO is advised by AGS 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 AGS 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 crime incidents of Fraud, Deception & Related offences based only on those directly reported to AGS by members of the public and recorded on the Garda PULSE system. The CSO will continue to exclude incidents of Fraud that have arisen from Section 19 referrals until this data can be coherently included in official crime statistics.

Therefore, users should continue to exercise caution in the interpretation of published statistics on recorded crime incidents of this offence type.

The rate of recorded crime incidents fell across all Garda Regions for 4 out of 15 offence groups (excluding group 16, Offences not elsewhere classified) in the year to Q1 2026 compared with the year to Q1 2025. The most significant of these were as follows:

Homicide & Related offences – where the rate of decrease was highest for the North Western and Eastern regions (-37% each), followed by the Dublin Metropolitan (-23%) and Southern regions (-6%).
Sexual offences – the highest rate of decrease was for the Southern region (-18%), followed by the North Western (-16%) and Dublin Metropolitan (-15%) regions.
Damage to Property & to the Environment offences – the rate of decrease was between -3% and -5% for all regions.
Road & Traffic offences – where the highest rate of decrease was for the Southern region (-6%), followed by the North Western region (-5%) and for the Eastern and Dublin Metropolitan regions it was -3%.

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

	Homicide & Related offences (01)	Sexual offences (02)	Damage to Property & to the Environment offences (12)	Road & Traffic offences (14)
Dublin Metropolitan	-23	-15	-3	-3
North Western	-37	-16	-3	-5
Eastern	-37	-9	-5	-3
Southern	-6	-18	-5	-6

Table 3.1 Recorded crime incidents classified by offence group and Garda region, annualised totals, Q1 2025 and Q1 2026

Table 3.1 Recorded crime incidents^1,2classified by offence group and Garda region, annualised³ totals, Q1 2025 and Q1 2026
	Garda region
ICCSq Offence Group	Dublin Metropolitan	North Western	Eastern	Southern	State
Annualised total to Q1 2025
Homicide & Related offences (01)	22	19	27	17	85
Sexual offences (02)	1,272	855	876	885	3,888
Attempts/Threats to Murder, Assaults, Harassments & Related offences (03)	8,735	5,071	5,768	5,327	24,901
Dangerous or Negligent Acts (04)	6,270	7,590	8,935	9,007	31,802
Kidnapping & Related offences (05)	69	35	27	29	160
Robbery, Extortion & Hijacking offences (06)	1,372	257	328	335	2,292
Burglary & Related offences (07)	3,735	1,512	2,442	1,642	9,331
Theft & Related offences (08)	37,856	8,038	14,429	13,447	73,770
Fraud, Deception & Related offences (09)⁴	4,396	2,108	2,582	2,411	11,497
Controlled Drug offences (10)	6,668	2,285	4,094	3,213	16,260
Weapons & Explosives offences (11)	1,367	459	535	605	2,966
Damage to Property & to the Environment offences (12)	8,936	3,654	4,625	4,189	21,404
Public Order & Other Social Code offences (13)	11,938	5,751	6,072	6,745	30,506
Road & Traffic offences (14)	18,456	8,848	10,422	9,865	47,591
Offences against Government, Justice Procedures & Organisation of Crime (15)	9,406	1,607	2,246	2,398	15,657
Offences not elsewhere classified (16)	732	427	431	551	2,141

Annualised total to Q1 2026
Homicide & Related offences (01)	17	12	17	16	62
Sexual offences (02)	1,079	718	796	722	3,315
Attempts/Threats to Murder, Assaults, Harassments & Related offences (03)	9,156	4,893	6,025	5,581	25,655
Dangerous or Negligent Acts (04)	6,248	8,120	11,057	8,361	33,786
Kidnapping & Related offences (05)	67	36	35	27	165
Robbery, Extortion & Hijacking offences (06)	1,193	227	349	373	2,142
Burglary & Related offences (07)	3,749	1,109	2,194	1,450	8,502
Theft & Related offences (08)	38,226	8,065	14,864	13,486	74,641
Fraud, Deception & Related offences (09)⁴	4,254	2,193	2,643	2,736	11,826
Controlled Drug offences (10)	7,151	2,379	3,915	3,306	16,751
Weapons & Explosives offences (11)	1,444	440	612	646	3,142
Damage to Property & to the Environment offences (12)	8,644	3,548	4,396	3,990	20,578
Public Order & Other Social Code offences (13)	12,709	5,945	6,222	6,766	31,642
Road & Traffic offences (14)	17,892	8,436	10,160	9,312	45,800
Offences against Government, Justice Procedures & Organisation of Crime (15)	9,310	1,631	2,268	2,414	15,623
Offences not elsewhere classified (16)	614	346	492	518	1,970

Annualised total change to Q1 2026
Homicide & Related offences (01)	-5	-7	-10	-1	-23
Sexual offences (02)	-193	-137	-80	-163	-573
Attempts/Threats to Murder, Assaults, Harassments & Related offences (03)	421	-178	257	254	754
Dangerous or Negligent Acts (04)	-22	530	2,122	-646	1,984
Kidnapping & Related offences (05)	-2	1	8	-2	5
Robbery, Extortion & Hijacking offences (06)	-179	-30	21	38	-150
Burglary & Related offences (07)	14	-403	-248	-192	-829
Theft & Related offences (08)	370	27	435	39	871
Fraud, Deception & Related offences (09)⁴	-142	85	61	325	329
Controlled Drug offences (10)	483	94	-179	93	491
Weapons & Explosives offences (11)	77	-19	77	41	176
Damage to Property & to the Environment offences (12)	-292	-106	-229	-199	-826
Public Order & Other Social Code offences (13)	771	194	150	21	1,136
Road & Traffic offences (14)	-564	-412	-262	-553	-1,791
Offences against Government, Justice Procedures & Organisation of Crime (15)	-96	24	22	16	-34
Offences not elsewhere classified (16)	-118	-81	61	-33	-171

Annualised total percentage change to Q1 2026
Homicide & Related offences (01)	-23	-37	-37	-6	-27
Sexual offences (02)	-15	-16	-9	-18	-15
Attempts/Threats to Murder, Assaults, Harassments & Related offences (03)	5	-4	4	5	3
Dangerous or Negligent Acts (04)	0	7	24	-7	6
Kidnapping & Related offences (05)	-3	3	30	-7	3
Robbery, Extortion & Hijacking offences (06)	-13	-12	6	11	-7
Burglary & Related offences (07)	0	-27	-10	-12	-9
Theft & Related offences (08)	1	0	3	0	1
Fraud, Deception & Related offences (09)⁴	-3	4	2	13	3
Controlled Drug offences (10)	7	4	-4	3	3
Weapons & Explosives offences (11)	6	-4	14	7	6
Damage to Property & to the Environment offences (12)	-3	-3	-5	-5	-4
Public Order & Other Social Code offences (13)	6	3	2	0	4
Road & Traffic offences (14)	-3	-5	-3	-6	-4
Offences against Government, Justice Procedures & Organisation of Crime (15)	-1	1	1	1	0
Offences not elsewhere classified (16)	-16	-19	14	-6	-8
¹ Based on data extracted 01 June 2026.
² Data may be subject to revision.
³The annualised figure for a given quarter is the total number of crimes recorded in the 12 months prior to end of that quarter.
⁴ ‘09 Fraud, Deception & Related offences’ reflects only those incidents reported directly to the Gardaí by members of the public. This is 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. Please see information note at the beginning of this chapter.