The North West region saw the biggest increase in robbery, extortion & hijacking offences nationwide in the first three months of this year.
New crime figures released this week by the Central Statistics Office show that it’s well above the national average.
Recorded incidents of Robbery, Extortion & Hijacking offences were up by 26% nationally or 531 to 2,601 between 2022 and 2023, driven mostly a rise in Blackmail or Extortion and Robbery from the Person offences.
In the North West however, the figure is 44%.
The data shows that there was a 6% decrease in sexual offences recorded in the region.
The North West saw the biggest decrease nationwide in the number of Public Order & Other Social Code offences, with a fall of 10%.
There was also a substantial rise in the number of theft & related offences in this region at 22%.
