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Recorded Crime Detection 2024

Regional Analysis

Higher crime rates in Dublin but lower detection rates

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CSO statistical release, 27 November 2025, 11am

September 2025 update on 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 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 recorded crime and detected rates by offence group for the four Garda Regions are presented in figures 3.1 and 3.2 and table 3.1 below.

The crime detection rate is the percentage share of recorded crime that has been marked as detected by An Garda Síochána.

The recorded crime rate is the number of recorded crime incidents relative to the population, expressed as a rate per 100,000 people. Regional populations are derived by first calculating the ratio of the population of each region to the total population in the Census of Population 2022. These ratios are then applied to the latest national population estimate produced by the CSO to produce regional population estimates.

Higher crime rates for most crimes in Dublin Metropolitan 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:

Homicide & Related offences, where the rate (2 incidents per 100,000 people) was highest for the North Western and Southern regions compared with a rate of one incident per 100,000 people for the DMR.
The rate for Dangerous or Negligent Acts which was highest for the North Western region at 181 incidents per 100,000 people and lowest in the DMR region at 106 incidents per 100,000 people. The rates for the Eastern and Southern regions were 130 and 150 incidents per 100,000 people, respectively (See Figures 3.1, 3.2, and Table 3.1).

Highest detection rates for the DMR for five of the fourteen crime offence groups

The crime incident detection rate was highest for the DMR for five of the fourteen crime offence groups in 2024.

Fraud, Deception & Related offences saw highest detection rates of 10% for the Dublin Metropolitan, North Western, and Southern regions. The rate was 7% for the Eastern region. This was in respect of crime incidents reported directly to the Gardaí only.
Controlled Drug offences had a detection rate of 84% for the DMR compared with 83% for the Eastern region, 79% for the Southern region, and 74% for the North Western region.
The detection rate for Public Order & Other Social Code offences was 84% for the DMR compared with 83% for the North Western region and 82% for the Eastern region.
Offences against Government, Justice Procedures & Organisation of Crime saw a detection rate of 76% for the DMR compared with the next highest of 69% for the Eastern region.
The detection rate for Weapons & Explosives offences for the DMR was 76%, whereas this rate ranged between 58% and 64% for all other regions.

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%).

Table 3.1 Recorded crime incident rate and detection rate for crime incidents reported in 2024 classified by offence group and Garda Region

Table 3.1 Recorded crime incident rate¹ and detection rate² for crime incidents reported in 2024³ classified by offence group and Garda Region⁴
	Crimes
ICCS Offence Group/Garda Region	Recorded	Recorded crime rate 100,000 persons¹	Detected	Crime incident detection rate² (%)
Homicide & Related offences (01)
State	81	2	61	75
Dublin Metropolitan	21	1	16	76
North Western Region	18	2	14	78
Eastern Region	26	2	20	77
Southern Region	16	1	11	69

Sexual offences (02)
State	3,770	70	268	7
Dublin Metropolitan	1,227	81	91	7
North Western Region	838	73	49	6
Eastern Region	866	61	89	10
Southern Region	839	64	39	5

Attempts/Threats to Murder, Assaults, Harassments & Related offences (03)
State	24,689	459	6,272	25
Dublin Metropolitan	8,593	564	1,845	21
North Western Region	4,925	432	1,354	27
Eastern Region	5,733	405	1,708	30
Southern Region	5,438	418	1,365	25

Dangerous or Negligent Acts (04)
State	7,463	139	6,353	85
Dublin Metropolitan	1,616	106	1,326	82
North Western Region	2,061	181	1,813	88
Eastern Region	1,833	130	1,568	86
Southern Region	1,953	150	1,646	84

Kidnapping & Related offences (05)
State	179	3	59	33
Dublin Metropolitan	74	5	17	23
North Western Region	37	3	13	35
Eastern Region	39	3	18	46
Southern Region	29	2	11	38

Robbery, Extortion & Hijacking offences (06)
State	2,371	44	578	24
Dublin Metropolitan	1,403	92	330	24
North Western Region	246	22	51	21
Eastern Region	361	26	116	32
Southern Region	361	28	81	22

Burglary & Related offences (07)
State	9,632	179	2,213	23
Dublin Metropolitan	3,774	248	892	24
North Western Region	1,562	137	280	18
Eastern Region	2,527	179	522	21
Southern Region	1,769	136	519	29

Theft & Related offences (08)
State	76,142	1,415	23,821	31
Dublin Metropolitan	38,897	2,553	10,373	27
North Western Region	8,400	736	3,221	38
Eastern Region	14,934	1,056	5,072	34
Southern Region	13,911	1,068	5,155	37

Fraud, Deception & Related offences (09)⁵
State	11,394	212	1,034	9
Dublin Metropolitan	4,439	291	436	10
North Western Region	2,137	187	205	10
Eastern Region	2,499	177	170	7
Southern Region	2,319	178	223	10

Controlled Drug offences (10)
State	16,115	300	13,103	81
Dublin Metropolitan	6,548	430	5,493	84
North Western Region	2,172	190	1,600	74
Eastern Region	4,097	290	3,394	83
Southern Region	3,298	253	2,616	79

Weapons & Explosives offences (11)
State	2,933	55	1,994	68
Dublin Metropolitan	1,338	88	1,011	76
North Western Region	451	40	263	58
Eastern Region	523	37	336	64
Southern Region	621	48	384	62

Damage to Property & to the Environment offences (12)
State	22,097	411	4,365	20
Dublin Metropolitan	9,244	607	1,789	19
North Western Region	3,761	330	788	21
Eastern Region	4,779	338	1,018	21
Southern Region	4,313	331	770	18

Public Order & Other Social Code offences (13)
State	30,425	565	25,218	83
Dublin Metropolitan	11,607	762	9,755	84
North Western Region	5,774	506	4,798	83
Eastern Region	6,129	433	5,037	82
Southern Region	6,915	531	5,628	81

Offences against Government, Justice Procedures & Organisation of Crime (15)
State	15,279	284	10,682	70
Dublin Metropolitan	8,999	591	6,848	76
North Western Region	1,605	141	974	61
Eastern Region	2,229	158	1,534	69
Southern Region	2,446	188	1,326	54
¹ Recorded crime rate is the number of recorded crime incidents relative to the population, expressed as a rate per 100,000 people.
² Crime incident detection rate is the number of detected incidents divided by the number of recorded incidents. A detected incident means at least one suspected offender has been sanctioned.
³ Data extracted 01 September 2025.
⁴ Regional figures reflect the Garda administrative regions which became operational during 2019. These are now undergoing further restructuring and future publications will take account of these changes when finalised.
⁵ Recorded crime incident data for offence group ‘Fraud, Deception & Related offences (09)’ for 2024 are only for those recorded crime incidents that have been reported directly to the Gardaí by members of the public and recorded on PULSE. Recorded crime incidents of this offence group from Q3 2023 onwards have been revised to exclude those reported to the Gardaí by Financial Institutions under Section 19 of the Criminal Justice Act, 2011. 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. Recorded crime data from Q3 2023 onwards is no longer comparable to data prior to Q3 2023. Please see information note at the beginning of this chapter.