This Official Statistics bulletin presents information on the number of crimes and offences recorded by the police in Scotland during January 2021. It also includes a comparison with the equivalent month of the previous year.
These Official Statistics were introduced from April 2020 to inform users about the volume and type of crimes and offences recorded in Scotland during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Whilst the restrictions put in place to limit the spread of the virus will have had an impact on the number of crimes and offences recorded by the police, some caution is advised before necessarily attributing all of the changes to this situation. For example, longer term trends in some types of offending, which existed prior to the pandemic, may remain a factor.
Recorded Crime in Scotland: January 2021 – gov.scot (www.gov.scot)