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.
This section provides a breakdown of victims of Attempts/Threats to Murder, Assaults, Harassments & Related offences (‘Assault & Related offences’) by age when the incident took place. Table 5.1 compares data for Quarter 4 (Q4) 2024 with Q4 2025. Please note that the number of victims here are slightly different to the number of incidents in Table 2.2 as there can be incidents where no injured party is recorded.
The overall number of people recorded as victims of this offence type fell by 2% to 5,872 in Q4 2025 compared with Q4 2024. Those victims who were under 18 years of age when the incident took place fell by 17% and this accounted for most of the overall decrease in the number of victims.
The number of male victims fell by 1% to 3,543 over the period. Male victims who were under 18 years of age when the incident took place fell by 14% while those aged 60 years and over rose by 13%. In the other age groups, victims aged 30-44 years rose by 4% while there were falls in the number of victims aged between 18-29 years (-2%) and 45-59 years (-3%) in Q4 2025.
The number of female victims fell by 4% to 2,329 between both Q4 2024 and Q4 2025, with the highest percentage decreases in the under 18 (-21%) and 60 years and over (-16%) age categories. Victims aged 45-59 years rose by 9% while there was a fall for those in the 18–44-year age group (See Figure 5.1,Table 5.1 and PxStat Table CJQ09).
Table 5.2 below however shows that the age breakdown of male and female victims has remained relatively stable in Q4 of each year since 2022.
| All Males | Males aged under 18 | Males aged 18-29 | Males aged 30-44 | Males aged 45-59 | Males aged years 60 and over | All Females | Females aged under 18 | Females aged 18-29 | Females aged 30-44 | Females aged 45-59 | Females aged 60 years and over | |
| ICCSq Offence Group 03 | -1 | -14 | -2 | 4 | -3 | 13 | -4 | -21 | -2 | -4 | 9 | -16 |
| Under 18 | 18-29 | 30-44 | 45-59 | 60 years and over | |
| Males Q4 2022 | 14 | 26 | 32 | 20 | 7 |
| Females Q4 2022 | 12 | 30 | 37 | 17 | 5 |
| Males Q4 2023 | 12 | 27 | 33 | 20 | 8 |
| Females Q4 2023 | 10 | 29 | 39 | 17 | 5 |
| Males Q4 2024 | 14 | 29 | 31 | 20 | 7 |
| Females Q4 2024 | 11 | 29 | 38 | 16 | 6 |
| Males Q4 2025 | 12 | 29 | 33 | 20 | 7 |
| Females Q4 2025 | 9 | 30 | 38 | 19 | 5 |
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