Major Crimes in Ireland

I am including Sexual offences, Homicide (Murder), Negligent Acts, Robbery/Extortion, Weapons/Explosives Offences, Fraud, and Kidnapping and Organised Crime/Offences against the Government as major crimes in this blog post. For any other crimes, see my blog post about minor crimes in Ireland.  If I missed any, or if you have any questions,  please comment below.

Here is a table of the major crimes in Ireland during 2016:

I got these stats from the CSO (Central Statistics Office) in Ireland (see their website at: http://www.cso.ie )














If you look at the table, you'll notice that overall, the most common crime was Organised Crime/Offences against the Government. However, this was not the most common crime in the Northern or Western regions of Ireland, with an especially large amount of incidents in the Eastern area.
Next was Dangerous or Negligent acts. This was the leading crime in the Northern and Western regions. It was no. 2 in the South, but in the East, it was only 3rd.
Third overall was Fraud/Deception Offences. It was the Second highest in the East, but the much lower numbers in the South, North and West brought it down.
The lowest two were Kidnapping and Related Offences, and Homicide (which is Murder).
For all areas, the number of Kidnappings etc. were higher than the number of Homicide incidents, but not by much.