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.
When measured in September 2025, detection rates for crime incidents reported in 2024 were equal to or above those in 2023 for nine of the fourteen crime offence groups.
By September 2025, the detection rate for crime incidents reported in 2023 had increased for 11 out of the 14 crime offence groups compared with 12 months earlier.
For most offence groups in 2024, the crime rate for the Dublin Metropolitan Region (DMR) was higher than for other regions while the rate of detection was lower.
Males were the suspected offender for most crime incidents in 2024 that were marked detected, in particular, for Sexual offences (99%), Kidnapping & Related offences (94%), Weapons & Explosives offences (92%), and Burglary & Related offences (90%).
The suspected offender was female in 37% of detected crime incidents of Theft & Related offences and 23% of those in the Fraud, Deception & Related offences group when the crime was reported directly to the Gardaí by members of the public.
Most suspected offenders for reported crime incidents in 2024 marked as detected were aged between 18 and 44 years when the offence took place.
The number of fixed charge notices issued by Gardaí for Speeding and Disorderly Conduct offences were down in 2024 from 12 months earlier while those for Driving Licence/Insurance offences were up.
This release provides annual statistics relating to Recorded Crime incidents up to the end of 2024 which have been marked as detected by An Garda Síochána (AGS) by September 2025.
A crime may be marked as detected when:
The rules which govern when an incident may be marked as detected by AGS are set out in the Guide on how Gardaí crime is counted and recorded (PDF 971KB) document, which explains the current rules and procedures for recording crime data on PULSE.
The CSO also publishes annual statistics in respect of persons who have been recorded as the victims or suspected offenders of serious crimes against the person such as homicide, sexual violence or assault and related offences, see Recorded Crime Victims and Suspected Offenders.
Users should note today’s release on Recorded Crime Detection is not directly comparable with the above which was published 25 November 2025.
The Frontier Series output Re-offending by Detected Incidents 2024 includes all detected crime incidents for the reference year of the re-offending indicators and uses a new incident type classification.
Today’s release uses the same methodology as previous releases where it excludes all incidents of Road & Traffic offences and some incident types relating to Public Order & Social Code offences and Dangerous or Negligent Acts.
The CSO published its fifth CSO Review of the Quality of Recorded Crime Statistics in October 2023. As part of this review, the CSO lifted the ‘Under Reservation’ designation from all Recorded Crime data disseminated after Quarter 1 (Q1) 2023.
Please see Lifting of the Under Reservation categorisation for Recorded Crime Statistics FAQ for further details.
Learn about our data and confidentiality safeguards, and the steps we take to produce statistics that can be trusted by all.
Statistician's Comment
The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has today (27 November 2025) published Recorded Crime Detection 2024.
Commenting on the release, Jim Dalton, Statistician in the Crime & Criminal Justice Section, said:
“Recorded Crime Detection statistics published today show recorded crime incidents up to the end of 2024 that have been marked detected by An Garda Síochána by September 2025.
The data shows that for most crime offence groups, the detection rates for crime incidents reported in 2024, when measured in September 2025, were equal to or above detection rates for reported crime at the same point in time in 2023.
A crime may be marked as detected when An Garda Síochána have identified at least one person responsible for committing the offence and that person has been issued a charge or summons, a formal or informal caution, or a fixed charge notice.
The CSO measures detection rates eight months after the end of a particular year to ensure consistency in the measurement of detections over time.
Detection Rates by Offence group
The statistics show that when measured in September 2025, the detection rates for crime incidents recorded in 2024 were equal to or above those in 2023 for nine of the fourteen crime offence groups compared with 12 months earlier. The most notable increase was for Offences against Government, Justice Procedures & Organisation of Crime at 70%, which was 7 percentage points higher than 2023. To a much lesser extent, the detection rate in 2024 for Controlled Drug offences was 2 percentage points higher at 81% than in 2023.
In contrast, the detection rate in 2024 was lower than in 2023 for Homicide & Related offences which, at 75%, was 7 percentage points lower than in 2023, Attempts/Threats to Murder, Assaults, Harassments & Related offences at 25%, and Weapons & Explosives offences at 68%, were both 3 percentage points lower than in 2023.
For all other offence groups, the percentage point change in detection rates ranged between -1 and +1.
Crime Rates by Garda Region
The crime rate per 100,000 of the population for 2024 was highest in the Dublin Metropolitan Region (DMR) for most offence groups with the following exceptions:
Crime Detection Rates by Garda Region
The crime incident detection rate was highest for the DMR for five of the fourteen crime offence groups in 2024.
In a further four offence groups, the DMR had the lowest detection rate, and these were Attempts/Threats to Murder, Assaults, Harassments & Related offences (21%), Dangerous & Negligent Acts (82%), Kidnapping & Related offences (23%), and Theft & Related offences (27%).
For the remaining offence groups, it was mixed. For example, the detection rate for Homicide & Related offences was 76% for the DMR which was lower than for the North Western (78%) and Eastern (77%) regions but higher than the Southern region (69%).
Recorded Crimes Leading to a Charge or Summons
Between 2018 and 2021, at least a fifth of reported crime incidents of Sexual offences led to a charge or summons sanction. The share for those reported in subsequent years was lower ranging from 17% in 2022 to 7% in 2024 but would be expected to increase with time.
The share of crime incidents that led to a charge or summons tended to be much higher for some offence categories than others. Homicide & Related offences, Dangerous or Negligent Acts, Controlled Drug offences, and Weapons & Explosives offences were the offence groups with the largest shares from 2018 to 2024.
For other offence groups, the experience was mixed. For example, between 15% and 16% of reported crime incidents of Burglary & Related offences in 2018 and 2019 led to a charge or summons but the rate was at least 20% between 2020 and 2024.
Suspected Offenders
As in previous years, males continued to be the suspected offender for most detected crime incidents for 2024. The crime offence groups with the highest share of male suspected offenders were Sexual offences (99%), Kidnapping & Related offences (94%), Weapons & Explosives offences (92%), Burglary & Related offences (90%), and Controlled Drugs offences (89%).
The suspected offender was female for 37% of detected crime incidents for Theft & Related offences and nearly a quarter (23%) of those in the Fraud, Deception & Related offences group when the crime was reported directly to the Gardai by members of the public.
The Age of Suspected Offenders
For all offence groups, most suspected offenders for detected crime were in the 18-44 age group when the incident took place. The following offence groups showed the highest share of suspected offenders who were aged 18 to 44 years:
For some other offence groups, this age group were not quite as prominent. For example:
Fixed Charge Notices
Fixed charge notices issued in respect of offences for Speeding, Dangerous/Careless Driving & Motorway offences and Disorderly Conduct and Driving Licence/Insurance showed the most notable changes in 2024.
Impact of COVID-19 on Data for 2020 and 2021
Data for 2020 and 2021 for some crime categories are likely to have been influenced by the public health restrictions imposed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.”