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Racially motivated offences in Scotland 2005-2017

Number of police recorded racially aggravated offences in Scotland from 2005/2006 to 2016/2017

The data displays racially aggravated offences recorded by the police in Scotland from April 1, 2005 to March 31, 2017. The peak of such incidents was in 2008/2009 with 4,564 racially motivated offences. Since that date, the figures show a year on year decline to the lowest figure in 2016/2017.

2005/06	4294
2006/07	4474
2007/08	4543
2008/09	4564
2009/10	4513
2010/11	4173
2011/12	3486
2012/13	2903
2013/14	2712
2014/15	2456
2015/16	2132
2016/17	1993

Racially motivated offences in Scotland 2005-2017

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