Table 1 Persons charged, by police decision, category of offence and group of principal offence. 2008

1 Persons charged, by police decision, category of offence and group of principal offence. 2008
	Total	Prosecution dropped, the offender not liable	Prosecution dropped for other reasons	Transferred to Conflict Council	Prosecution conditionally dropped	Ticket fine	Commited for trial


Offences, total	85 875	5 320	6 136	2 715	1 746	48 182	21 776
Crime	34 938	3 129	2 738	1 872	808	12 316	14 075
Misdemeanour	50 937	2 191	3 398	843	938	35 866	7 701
Economic offences	2 161	54	178	10	33	696	1 190
Other offences for profit	15 973	2 133	1 730	1 052	543	5 815	4 700
Offences of violence	7 576	954	686	781	190	1 218	3 747
Sexual offences	1 046	137	185	8	13	190	513
Offences of narcotics	10 556	138	624	1	267	6 589	2 937
Damage to property	2 415	914	100	531	48	621	201
Environment offences¹	716	9	65	2	19	528	93
Traffic offences	31 897	391	1 475	14	227	23 096	6 694
Other offences	13 535	590	1 093	316	406	9 429	1 701

¹	Includes 59 persons charged with work environment offences as prinicipal offence.