February 12, 2026 | Incident and Crime Statistics
Request Number: FOI/16757
Category: Incident and Crime Statistics
Subject: Criminal damage offences to Church/Religious Buildings
Request and Answer:
Your request for information has now been considered. In respect of Section 1(1)(a) of the Act we can confirm that the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) does hold information to which your request relates. The decision has been taken to disclose the following.
Request:
Provide the number of criminal damage offences in each of the last six financial years (2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24 and 2024/25) by Policing District where the Modus Operandi (MO) location subtype is church/religious building, churchyard or cemetery.
Answer:
Please see below table.
Criminal Damage Offences where the location subtype was recorded as |
| |||||
church/religious building,churchyard | 2019/2 | 2020/2 | 2021/2 | 2022/2 | 2023/2 | 2024/2 |
or cemetery | O | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Belfast City |
43 |
41 |
26 |
33 |
32 |
21 |
Lisburn & Castlereagh City | 8 | 12 | 12 | 15 | 7 | 7 |
Ards &North Down | 13 | 7 | 15 | 11 | 5 | 6 |
Newry, Mourne &Down |
11 |
10 |
14 |
22 |
7 |
5 |
Armagh City, Banbridge & Craigavon | 12 | 12 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 9 |
Mid Ulster | 9 | 10 | 12 | 11 | 12 | 10 |
Fermanagh &Omagh | 12 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 8 |
Derry City& Strabane | 9 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 22 |
Causeway Coast& Glens | 9 | 11 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 3 |
Mid &East Antrim | 9 | 10 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 4 |
Antrim &Newtownabbey | 3 | 5 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 4 |
Northern Ireland |
138 |
135 |
110 |
139 |
102 |
99 |