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Recorded Crime Q4 2025

Regional Analysis

Regional Analysis

Recorded crime incidents fell across all Garda regions for 5 of the 16 offence groups in 2025

Online ISSN: 2009-5171
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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 number of recorded crime incidents fell across all Garda Regions for 5 of the 16 offence groups between 2024 and 2025. The most significant of these were as follows:

  • Homicide & Related offences - where the rates of decrease were highest in the North Western (-36%) and Eastern regions (-27%) and lowest in the Southern region (-11%).
  • Sexual offences - the rate of decrease was between 8 and 10% across all regions.
  • Robbery, Extortion & Hijacking offences - where the highest rate of decrease was in the Dublin Metropolitan region (-15%). This was followed by the Eastern and Southern regions (both -7%).
  • Theft & Related offences – the highest rate of decrease was -6% for both the North Western and Southern regions.
  • Damage to Property & to the Environment offences - the Southern and Dublin Metropolitan regions showed the largest rate of decline at -9%, followed by the Eastern region at -8%.

For most 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.

Homicide & Related offences (01)Sexual offences (02)Robbery, Extortion & Hijacking offences (06)Theft & Related offences (08)Damage to Property & to the Environment (12)
Dublin Metropolitan-23-9-15-3-9
North Western-36-9-5-6-6
Eastern -27-8-7-1-8
Southern-11-10-7-6-9
Table 3.1 Recorded crime incidents classified by offence group and Garda region, annualised totals, Q4 2024 and Q4 2025

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