Glasgow is the third worst area in Scotland for housebreak-ins, according to new figures.
The five-year average from 2018-2022 puts Glasgow as having 30 per 10,000 housebreaks. It is beaten only by Edinburgh, with a rate of 40 per 10,000 and Dundee with a rate of 32 per 10,000. The stats come from the Scottish Government.
Despite these figures, housebreaking has fallen by 40 per cent between the year ending June 2018 and the year ending June 2022 (from 14,521 to 8,705 crimes). The reduction has been driven by the numerous lockdowns over the past three years and the rise in the number of people working from home, reports the Scottish Daily Express.
