Provisional crime statistics show how the pandemic continued to impact crime last year, with property crimes and robberies down in 2021, while levels of cyber crime soared.

Reported burglary figures for example, fell in 2020 and again in 2021.

Last year, reported residential burglary was down by 18% compared with 2020 and burglary occurring elsewhere fell by 27%.

In contrast cyber crime rates increased substantially.