An Garda Síochána

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 28 June 2022

Tuesday, 28 June 2022

Ceisteanna (691, 692)

Thomas Gould

Ceist:

691. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Justice the number of convictions from arrest for anti-social behaviour from the Ballincollig Garda station in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021. [33655/22]

Thomas Gould

Ceist:

692. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Justice the number of convictions from arrest from the Ballincollig Garda station in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021. [33656/22]

Freagraí scríofa

Minister for Justice

I propose to take Questions Nos. 691 and 692 together.

As the Deputy will appreciate, the Courts Service is responsible for the administration of the Courts system. I have been advised by the Courts Service that it is not possible to provide the data requested by the Deputy as the Courts Service does not record convictions against the Garda station in which a convicted person was arrested.

For the Deputy's information, the Central Statistics Office (CSO) is responsible for the compilation and publication of all crime statistics. The CSO produces these statistics using data recorded on An Garda Síochána’s PULSE system and makes regular releases under reservation in relation to various crime statistics, including recorded and detected crime. The CSO continues to work with An Garda Síochána to address quality issues in the underlying sources used to compile the statistics.

The table below, from the publicly available data on the CSO's website, shows the number of recorded crime offences in the Ballincollig Garda Station for the years requested.

Type of Offence	2018	2019	2020	2021
Attempts/threats to murder, assaults, harassments and related offences	65	63	63	65
Dangerous or negligent acts	33	23	20	25
Kidnapping and related offences	0	0	0	0
Robbery, extortion and hijacking offences	4	2	1	2
Burglary and related offences	36	25	16	5
Theft and related offences	162	143	128	97
Fraud, deception and related offences	14	31	31	68
Controlled drug offences	31	35	32	43
Weapons and Explosives Offences	3	4	6	6
Damage to property and to the environment	63	78	70	94
Public order and other social code offences	72	107	145	104
Offences against government, justice procedures and organisation of crime	10	18	20	11
TOTAL	493	529	532	520

The table below shows the total number of public order and other social code offences recorded in Ballincollig Garda Station for the years requested.

Year	Type of Offence	Number
2018	Public order and other social code offences	72
2019	Public order and other social code offences	107
2020	Public order and other social code offences	145
2021	Public order and other social code offences	104
TOTAL		428

Question No. 692 answered with Question No. 691.