1.3 Number of police custody measures and rate of use according to type of offence Source: Etat 4001, Ministry of the Interior and ONDRP post-2019, series B. Aubusson. Field: Serious crimes and offences reported to the State Prosecutor’s Office by the police and gendarmerie (apart from traffic offences), Metropolitan France. 1994 Persons implicated in offences Custody measures Homicide 2,075 Procuring (prostitution) 2008 % Persons implicated in offences Custody measures 2,401 115.7% 1,819 901 976 108.3% Violent thefts 18,618 14,044 Drug trafficking 13,314 Burglaries 2014 % Persons implicated in offences Custody measures % 2,134 117.3% 1,998 2,214 110.8% 759 768 101.2% 796 701 88.1% 75.4% 20,058 18,290 91.2% 18,584 14,915 80.3% 11,543 86.7% 23,160 15,570 67.2% 16,241 11,800 72.7% 55,272 34,611 62.6% 36,692 27,485 74.9% 42,841 28,082 65.5% Auto larceny 35,033 22,879 65.3% 20,714 16,188 78.2% 16,914 10,993 65.0% Sexual assaults 10,943 8,132 74.3% 14,969 12,242 81.8% 19,097 11,573 60.6% Insulting and violence against government officials 21,535 16,670 49.5% 42,348 29,574 69.8% 34,732 21,748 62.6% Vehicle theft 40,076 24,721 61.7% 20,764 15,654 75.4% 13,497 7,686 56.9% Fire, explosives 2,906 1,699 58.5% 7,881 6,249 79.3% 5,429 2,933 54.0% Other behaviours 5,186 2,637 50.8% 12,095 8,660 71.6% 8,969 4,506 50.2% Other thefts 89,278 40,032 44.8% 113,808 61,689 54.2% 118,951 47,960 40.3% False documents 9,368 4,249 45.4% 8,260 4,777 57.8% 11,739 4,649 39.6% Foreigners 48,514 37,389 77.1% 119,761 82,084 68.5% 22,829 8,187 35.9% Assault and battery 50,209 14,766 29.4% 150,264 73,141 48.7% 151,152 55,193 36.5% Weapons 12,117 5,928 48.9% 23,455 10,103 43.1% 23,968 6,594 27.5% Shoplifting 55,654 11,082 19.9% 58,674 20,661 35.2% 59,004 17,063 28.9% Drug use 55,505 32,824 59.1% 149,753 68,711 45.9% 188,990 46,416 24.6% Destruction, damage 45,591 12,453 27.3% 74,115 29,319 39.6% 47,698 11,430 24.0% Other trespass to persons 28,094 5,920 21.1% 65,066 20,511 31.5% 78,330 16,755 21.4% Fraud, breach of trust 54,866 17,115 31.2% 63,123 21,916 34.7% 60,504 10,966 18.1% Frauds, economic crime 40,353 6,636 16.4% 33,334 9,700 29.1% 39,751 6,405 16.1% Other general policies 15,524 3,028 19.5% 6,190 926 15.0% 7,351 1,166 15.9% Family, child 27,893 1,707 6.1% 43,121 4,176 9.7% 62,157 3,817 6.1% Unpaid cheques 4,803 431 9.0% 3,135 457 14.6% 2,815 70 2.5% Total 775,701 334,785 43.2% 1,172,393 577,816 49.3% 1,111,882 364,911 32.8% Total without unpaid cheques 770,898 334,354 43.4% 1,169,258 577,359 49.4% 1,109,067 364,841 32.9% Type of offence 118