Twenty-eight years of reports
The line is every incident reported in the province, by year.
Explore by category
Each category is an official grouping from the survey. Open one to see every offence inside it, year by year, and what happened in court where that is published.
Violence against children
Offences in the Criminal Code that apply only where the victim is a child.
Sexual offences, all ages
Sexual offences where the law does not specify the age of the victim, plus child sexual abuse material.
Violence
Offences against a person, from uttering threats through to homicide.
Property
Offences against property: break and enter, theft, shoplifting, mischief.
Financial and white collar
Fraud and the financial offences police handle as crimes.
Drugs
Possession, trafficking, and production under the drug laws.
Administration of justice
Offences against the court process itself, such as breaching probation.
Police resources
Who does the policing
The other side of the ledger: officers in place, positions funded, civilian staff, and the work each officer carries. Province-wide since 1986 and by RNC region since 2000, from a separate survey.
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What to know about these figures
These figures come from the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, a census of crimes reported to and founded by police. They count what police recorded, not everything that happened. Self-reported victimization surveys consistently find most crime is never reported to police; for sexual assault the reported share was about 6 percent in 2019.
Incidents, charges, and court outcomes come from two separate surveys (UCR and the Integrated Criminal Court Survey) that cannot be linked case by case. Read the stages as four measurements of the same system in the same year, not as one group of cases followed from report to verdict.
In January 2018 the definition of a founded incident changed: an incident is now counted as founded unless there is credible evidence that it did not occur. This raised recorded counts across many offence types. Comparisons that cross 2018 should note it.
Newfoundland and Labrador is policed by the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary and the RCMP. UCR coverage of the provincial population is 100 percent.