Registered crimes, clarifications; type of crime, regional unit
Description
This table contains figures on the number of recorded crimes and clarifications per month and per year. These are broken down by type of crime and by police unit. Attempts are also included in the recorded crimes. For some crimes (e.g. murder/homicide), this results in a much higher number than just the number of completed crimes.
Since July 2018, it is no longer possible to record multiple offences, which are related to each other (concurrence), in one registration. An example of this is a street robbery in which a firearm (gun possession) is used. If several offences occur in one registration, only the most serious offence was counted before July 2018.
As a result of this adjustment, a number of offences show an increase compared to 2018. This mainly concerns trespassing, special laws including money laundering, arms trafficking including possession of weapons, drug trafficking, violation of public order and other social integrity including insults. The increase was therefore mainly visible in the last 6 months of 2018. This adjustment has only a limited impact on the total number of crimes. For the whole of 2018, this causes an increase of approximately 1.0%.
Since 30 April 2020, it is possible to report WhatsApp fraud via the Internet (also known as friend-in-emergency fraud). This was immediately used extensively. In the months of May to December 2020, approximately 20,000 reports of WhatsApp fraud were made. WhatsApp fraud is registered under Horizontal fraud.
The increase in the clearing rate in the first 6 months of 2022 year is partly due to the decrease in online crime (crimes with relatively low clearing rate). Furthermore, there has been a system change whereby the old date of a number of registrations has been overwritten by a date in the first half of 2022. As a result, the clearing rate in the last months of the reporting period is temporarily somewhat higher.
Declarations concern registered crimes for which a Pv of declarations has been drawn up. Several reports can be made per crime.
Internet reporting can only be done for a selected number of offences and only if there is no detection indication.
A registered crime is considered to be cleared up as soon as a suspect is linked to it and it has been heard. A suspect doesn't have to confess. The fact that a reporter continues to classify him/her as a suspect after questioning means that, in the reporter's opinion, he/she was rightly classed as a suspect. The clarification rate is calculated by dividing the number of clarifications from a period by the number of recorded crimes from the same period. The clarifications can therefore relate to crimes from another period. This has been chosen because otherwise it will take a long time before the figures are final due to the lack of time (a registration can be clarified much later than a crime has been registered). As a result, the elucidation rates over recent periods would be too low.
For crimes with little detection indication (internet reports and/or offences where no physical contact has taken place), the clearing rate is lower than where physical contact has taken place (e.g. robberies and street robberies).
Data available from: 2012
Status of figures:
The figures in this table are regularly updated. This may result in minor differences with previous publications. Updating the figures is necessary, for example, in order to retroactively incorporate the reclassification of municipalities or adjustment in the coding. Figures on declarations and internet declarations are updated after each quarter.
Changes as of 15 April 2024:
Figures for the first quarter of 2024 have been added.
When will there be new figures?
The figures for the second quarter of 2024 will be added on 15 July.
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