There has been an almost 11% rise in burglaries in the Irish Republic over the past year.
There has been an almost 11% rise in burglaries in the Irish Republic over the past year, according to statistics revealed on Friday.
The latest figures released from the <link> <caption>Central Statistic's Office</caption> <url href="http://www.cso.ie/en/media/csoie/releasespublications/documents/crimejustice/2012/recordedcrime_q12012.pdf?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter" platform="highweb"/> </link> focused on the 12-month period ending in the first quarter of 2012.
It showed that the number of burglaries and related offences were up from 25,962 in 2011 to 28,781 in 2012.
There had also been 185 more fraud and deception offences compared to the same period last year.
There were falls seen in all many other groups, including decreases in murder threats and attempts, and controlled drug offences.
