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145,930 residents in 202 neighbourhoods.

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What crimes are recorded in Dumfries and Galloway

Crimes recorded by the police in Dumfries and Galloway, April 2025 to March 2026, by crime group. Cleared up: the share of those crimes where there was enough evidence under Scots law to consider criminal proceedings.

Recorded crime by group, 2025/26
Crime	Crimes in 2025/26	Per 1,000 residents	Crimes in 2024/25	Cleared up	Scotland per 1,000
All crimes	8,058	55.2	7,774	52%	56.9
Non-sexual crimes of violence	2,120	14.5	2,161	71%	13.6
Sexual crimes	584	4.0	487	71%	3.0
Crimes of dishonesty	2,262	15.5	2,194	36%	21.3
Damage and reckless behaviour	981	6.7	1,064	31%	6.9
Crimes against society	2,111	14.5	1,868	86%	12.1

More: the crimes in each group

Recorded crime by type, 2025/26
Crime	Crimes in 2025/26	Per 1,000 residents	Crimes in 2024/25	Cleared up	Scotland per 1,000
Non-sexual crimes of violence
Common assault	1,682	11.5	1,748	71%	11.3
Death by dangerous driving	4	0.0	1	-	0.0
Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018	143	1.0	111	84%	0.6
Murder and culpable homicide	0	0.0	1	120%	0.0
Other non-sexual violence	181	1.2	160	70%	0.8
Robbery	29	0.2	45	50%	0.3
Serious assault and attempted murder	81	0.6	95	76%	0.6
Sexual crimes
Causing to view sexual activity or images	82	0.6	71	61%	0.5
Communicating indecently	76	0.5	64	74%	0.3
Crimes associated with prostitution	0	0.0	0	77%	0.0
Indecent photos of children	30	0.2	16	100%	0.2
Other sexual crimes	73	0.5	43	51%	0.3
Rape & attempted rape	92	0.6	76	67%	0.6
Sexual assault	201	1.4	184	78%	0.9
Threatening to or disclosing intimate images	30	0.2	33	52%	0.2
Crimes of dishonesty
Fraud	447	3.1	420	19%	2.8
Housebreaking	191	1.3	192	30%	1.3
Other dishonesty	113	0.8	115	67%	0.8
Other theft	703	4.8	690	19%	5.5
Shoplifting	626	4.3	572	47%	9.6
Theft by opening lockfast places	36	0.2	35	17%	0.2
Theft from a motor vehicle	28	0.2	81	28%	0.3
Theft of a motor vehicle	118	0.8	89	49%	0.9
Damage and reckless behaviour
Fire-raising	48	0.3	35	21%	0.5
Reckless conduct	79	0.5	92	54%	0.5
Vandalism	854	5.9	937	29%	5.9
Crimes against society
Crimes against public justice	913	6.3	890	93%	5.3
Drugs - Possession	878	6.0	674	86%	3.6
Drugs - Supply	99	0.7	88	91%	0.9
Other crimes against society	7	0.0	11	82%	0.1
Weapons possession (not used)	129	0.9	99	86%	0.8
Weapons possession (used)	85	0.6	106	66%	1.4

Source: Scottish Government, Recorded crimes and offences and Crime clear up rates (Open Government Licence).

Road collisions

Dumfries and Galloway, 2023 to 2025: 200 road collisions a year with someone hurt, 79 of them with someone killed or seriously injured. 23 collisions were fatal in those 3 years.

1.4 a year per 1,000 residents (Great Britain 1.5). 39% of them killed or seriously injured someone (Great Britain 26%).

Collisions on public roads that the police recorded where someone was hurt, counted where they happened, so busy through roads and town centres with few residents come out high. Serious and slight use the Department for Transport's adjusted severity, comparable between police forces. Source: Department for Transport road casualty statistics (STATS19), Open Government Licence v3.0.

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