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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 10 of the 14 offence groups in the year to Quarter 2 (Q2) 2025.
The largest percentage decreases were for Homicide & Related offences (-42%), Kidnapping & Related offences (-16%) and Robbery, Extortion & Hijacking offences (-14%). Other notable decreases were in crime incidents of Burglary & Related offences (-7%), Fraud, Deception & Related offences (-6%) and Offences against Government, Justice Procedures & Organisation of Crime (-6%). Crime incidents of Fraud, Deception & Related offences are in respect of those reported directly to An Garda Síochána by members of the Public and does not include those reported by Financial Institutions as required under Section 19 of the Criminal Justice Act, 2011.
In contrast, there were increases in the number of crime incidents of Sexual offences (+17%), Public Order & Other Social Code offences (+6%), Attempts/Threats to Murder, Assaults, Harassments & Related offences (+4%), and Weapons & Explosive offences (+4%) (See Figure 2.1, Tables 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 | 09 Fraud, Deception & 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 | -42 | 17 | 4 | -1 | -16 | -14 | -7 | -2 | -6 | -2 | 4 | 6 | -6 |
Table 2.2 compares the number of crime incidents by offence category between Q2 2024 and Q2 2025. The number of recorded crime incidents fell for eight out of the 14 offence groups between Q2 2024 and Q2 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 Weapons & Explosives offences (+7%) and Public Order & Other Social Code offences (+7%) (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 | -64 | 3 | 1 | 1 | -18 | -17 | -6 | 2 | -6 | 7 | 7 | -15 |
Table 2.3 provides a breakdown by offence type of the total number of recorded crime incidents for the year to Quarter 2 for the years 2022 to 2025. A comparison is also made between data for the year to Q2 2022 and year to Q2 2025.
Over the 4-year period (2022-2025), the largest percentage changes in the number of recorded crime incidents have been for Theft & Related offences.
In the year to Q2 2025, there were 74,292 recorded crime incidents of Theft & Related offences and this showed an increase of 30% or 17,278 incidents from the same period in 2022. In the intervening period, the number of recorded crime incidents increased to 71,104 in the year to Q2 2023 but has been relatively stable after that with the 75,980 incidents in the year to Q2 2024 being slightly more than for the same period in 2025.
Among the other offence groups, there were also notable percentage changes in recorded crime incidents and these included:
| X-axis label | 2022 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| 03 Attempts/Threats to Murder, Assaults, Harassments & Related offences | 23003 | 24899 |
| 04 Dangerous or Negligent Acts | 8710 | 7469 |
| 06 Robbery, Extortion & Hijaking offences | 1924 | 2186 |
| 08 Theft & Related offences | 57014 | 74292 |
| 10 Controlled Drug offences | 16711 | 16044 |
| 11 Weapons & Explosives offences | 2536 | 3007 |
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