The Newfoundland & Labrador Public Record

Administration of justice

Offences against the court process itself, such as breaching probation. Figures below are for 2025.

4,627 Reported to police 841 per 100,000 people
3,341 Led to a charge 72 in 100 reports
3,101 People charged 623 per 100,000 aged 12+
481 Finished in court 63 in 100 ended in a guilty finding Court year 2024/2025. A different survey.
Someone charged 3,341 Solved another way 208 No one charged 1,078

336 further reports, 6.8 per cent of all reports received, were judged not to have happened. They are not counted above.

1998 to 2025

Counts Per 100,000 people
0 1,250 2,500 3,750 5,0001998 — Someone charged: 1,5621998 — Solved another way: 5941998 — No one charged: 6621999 — Someone charged: 1,2791999 — Solved another way: 3441999 — No one charged: 4382000 — Someone charged: 1,4232000 — Solved another way: 2332000 — No one charged: 5392001 — Someone charged: 1,7032001 — Solved another way: 1892001 — No one charged: 4872002 — Someone charged: 1,5432002 — Solved another way: 1792002 — No one charged: 6642003 — Someone charged: 1,5082003 — Solved another way: 2502003 — No one charged: 4122004 — Someone charged: 1,3012004 — Solved another way: 2472004 — No one charged: 4772005 — Someone charged: 1,1582005 — Solved another way: 1852005 — No one charged: 4592006 — Someone charged: 1,1022006 — Solved another way: 1632006 — No one charged: 2592007 — Someone charged: 1,1622007 — Solved another way: 1922007 — No one charged: 2482008 — Someone charged: 1,1952008 — Solved another way: 2452008 — No one charged: 2992009 — Someone charged: 1,2532009 — Solved another way: 2152009 — No one charged: 3242010 — Someone charged: 1,3882010 — Solved another way: 2062010 — No one charged: 3552011 — Someone charged: 1,3942011 — Solved another way: 1902011 — No one charged: 4162012 — Someone charged: 1,4782012 — Solved another way: 2212012 — No one charged: 5172013 — Someone charged: 1,7622013 — Solved another way: 2952013 — No one charged: 4082014 — Someone charged: 1,9122014 — Solved another way: 2282014 — No one charged: 4472015 — Someone charged: 2,0552015 — Solved another way: 2232015 — No one charged: 5172016 — Someone charged: 2,5822016 — Solved another way: 2812016 — No one charged: 4712017 — Someone charged: 2,4862017 — Solved another way: 2682017 — No one charged: 5052018 — Someone charged: 2,6742018 — Solved another way: 2402018 — No one charged: 5482019 — Someone charged: 2,5162019 — Solved another way: 1822019 — No one charged: 7302020 — Someone charged: 1,9392020 — Solved another way: 3002020 — No one charged: 7822021 — Someone charged: 1,8322021 — Solved another way: 3472021 — No one charged: 9432022 — Someone charged: 2,1052022 — Solved another way: 3052022 — No one charged: 9652023 — Someone charged: 2,4032023 — Solved another way: 2902023 — No one charged: 9862024 — Someone charged: 2,7232024 — Solved another way: 3162024 — No one charged: 1,1702025 — Someone charged: 3,3412025 — Solved another way: 2082025 — No one charged: 1,07819982002200620102014201820222025
Someone charged 3,341 Solved another way 208 No one charged 1,078

Each bar is the year's total reports. The segments show what happened: a charge was laid, the case was solved another way, or no one was charged.

Figures beside each colour are for 2025. This view always shows counts, whichever measure is selected above.

Which offences make this up, 2025

Fail to comply with order3,553 3,553
Breach of probation814 814
Obstruct public or peace officer123 123
Fail to appear97 97
Prisoner unlawfully at large47 47

Select any offence to see it year by year on its own.

What happened in court, 2024/2025

481 adult criminal court cases were completed in Newfoundland and Labrador under administration of justice, and 303 of them, 63 per cent, ended in a guilty finding.

Guilty303 303 63%
Stayed or withdrawn174 174 36%
Acquitted4 4 1%

These are not the incidents above. A court case is counted under the most serious offence it contains, so one case can cover several charges. The court year runs April to March, and the cases completed in it mostly began with charges laid in earlier years. The survey covers adults only; anyone under eighteen at the time of the offence is dealt with in youth court and does not appear here. Court figures use the group administration of justice.

Court outcomes year by year
Court yearCases completed GuiltyStayed or withdrawnAcquitted Guilty per 100
2024/2025 481 3031744 63
2023/2024 487 2991833 61
2022/2023 439 2681701 61
2021/2022 372 2321363 62
2020/2021 549 3701745 67
2019/2020 678 4732003 70
2018/2019 744 5491930 74
2017/2018 730 5491782 75
2016/2017 787 6231525 79
2015/2016 980 8011732 82
2014/2015 889 7001851 79
2013/2014 895 6882000 77
2012/2013 925 7381842 80
2011/2012 878 6971752 79
2010/2011 857 6811730 79
2009/2010 783 6271462 80
2008/2009 823 6142032 75
2007/2008 695 5551331 80
2006/2007 725 5581630 77
2005/2006 832 6411831 77
2004/2005 949 7372090 78
2003/2004 911 7211840 79
2002/2003 972 7781870 80
2001/2002 913 7441651 81
2000/2001 845 6451870 76
What to know about these figures

These figures come from the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, a census of crimes reported to and founded by police. They count what police recorded, not everything that happened. Self-reported victimization surveys consistently find most crime is never reported to police; for sexual assault the reported share was about 6 percent in 2019.

Incidents, charges, and court outcomes come from two separate surveys (UCR and the Integrated Criminal Court Survey) that cannot be linked case by case. Read the stages as four measurements of the same system in the same year, not as one group of cases followed from report to verdict.

In January 2018 the definition of a founded incident changed: an incident is now counted as founded unless there is credible evidence that it did not occur. This raised recorded counts across many offence types. Comparisons that cross 2018 should note it.

Newfoundland and Labrador is policed by the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary and the RCMP. UCR coverage of the provincial population is 100 percent.

These are offences against the justice process itself: failing to appear, breaching probation, failing to comply with an order. They are counted here because they occupy court time without arising from a new offence against a person or property.

The series starts in 1998 because that is the first year this category appears in the survey. Earlier years are left out rather than drawn as zero.

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