Detention
How many arrests are made in Denmark? How many of the arrests concern men and women respectively? How many arrests lead to serving of a sentence? Which age groups do the arrests concern? The statistics show arrests made by the police in connection with criminal law and special act offences.
Selected statistics on Detention
Development in the number of arrests of men and women
The statistics include all imprisonments which are registered in the Central Criminal Register. Data are stored in Statistics Denmarks's Register of Imprisonments and combined with information from Statistics Denmark's Population Register and Statistics Denmark's Educational Register.
Number of arrests broken down by outcome
The statistics include all imprisonments which are registered in the Central Criminal Register. Data are stored in Statistics Denmarks's Register of Imprisonments and combined with information from Statistics Denmark's Population Register and Statistics Denmark's Educational Register.
Number of arrests broken down by sex and age
The statistics include all imprisonments which are registered in the Central Criminal Register. Data are stored in Statistics Denmarks's Register of Imprisonments and combined with information from Statistics Denmark's Population Register and Statistics Denmark's Educational Register.
On the statistics – documentation, sources and method
See the documentation of statistics to learn more:
The purpose of the statistics is to analyze the number of arrests for violation of the penal code and the special laws (among these the Danish Road Traffic Act). The statistics on imprisonments was published for the first time for the year 2015.