Police crime statistics 2009 – First complete and comparable crime information
Neuchâtel, 22.3.2010 - (FSO) - The new police crime statistics (PCS), recorded 446,505 cases in 2009, with a total of 676,309 criminal offences. The majority are Penal Code offences (82%), for the most part theft and damage to property. Offences against the Narcotics Act (13% of offences) and against the Aliens Law (4%) are further offences that are now recorded in the new, harmonised police crime statistics from the Federal Statistical Office (FSO), providing comparable data for the whole of Switzerland. National data based on the new concept are available for the first time for the year 2009.