The Newfoundland & Labrador Public Record

Financial and white collar

Fraud and the financial offences police handle as crimes. Figures below are for 2025.

2,173 Reported to police 395 per 100,000 people
178 Led to a charge 8 in 100 reports
206 People charged 41 per 100,000 aged 12+
— Finished in court Not published for this category.
Someone charged 178 Solved another way 54 No one charged 1,941

158 further reports, 96.9 per cent of all reports received, were judged not to have happened. They are not counted above.

No official total exists for this grouping. These figures add up the offences listed below.

1998 to 2025

Counts Per 100,000 people
0 625 1,250 1,875 2,5001998 — Someone charged: 8841998 — Solved another way: 2301998 — No one charged: 6421999 — Someone charged: 7571999 — Solved another way: 1521999 — No one charged: 5122000 — Someone charged: 5802000 — Solved another way: 822000 — No one charged: 7042001 — Someone charged: 5672001 — Solved another way: 1152001 — No one charged: 7462002 — Someone charged: 4392002 — Solved another way: 1172002 — No one charged: 6632003 — Someone charged: 4492003 — Solved another way: 932003 — No one charged: 6512004 — Someone charged: 4242004 — Solved another way: 1002004 — No one charged: 9382005 — Someone charged: 4112005 — Solved another way: 1532005 — No one charged: 7482006 — Someone charged: 3012006 — Solved another way: 1222006 — No one charged: 8002007 — Someone charged: 3592007 — Solved another way: 1492007 — No one charged: 1,0062008 — Someone charged: 3272008 — Solved another way: 1272008 — No one charged: 1,0252009 — Someone charged: 2992009 — Solved another way: 1732009 — No one charged: 9612010 — Someone charged: 2752010 — Solved another way: 1352010 — No one charged: 8712011 — Someone charged: 2612011 — Solved another way: 1152011 — No one charged: 8302012 — Someone charged: 2372012 — Solved another way: 1072012 — No one charged: 7662013 — Someone charged: 2722013 — Solved another way: 882013 — No one charged: 8752014 — Someone charged: 3732014 — Solved another way: 842014 — No one charged: 7022015 — Someone charged: 2372015 — Solved another way: 682015 — No one charged: 9202016 — Someone charged: 3722016 — Solved another way: 862016 — No one charged: 1,0692017 — Someone charged: 3112017 — Solved another way: 902017 — No one charged: 9832018 — Someone charged: 4022018 — Solved another way: 642018 — No one charged: 1,2522019 — Someone charged: 3982019 — Solved another way: 502019 — No one charged: 1,3142020 — Someone charged: 3012020 — Solved another way: 412020 — No one charged: 1,3942021 — Someone charged: 2302021 — Solved another way: 362021 — No one charged: 1,5012022 — Someone charged: 2332022 — Solved another way: 662022 — No one charged: 1,5622023 — Someone charged: 2522023 — Solved another way: 1102023 — No one charged: 2,0582024 — Someone charged: 2302024 — Solved another way: 472024 — No one charged: 2,2172025 — Someone charged: 1782025 — Solved another way: 542025 — No one charged: 1,94119982002200620102014201820222025
Someone charged 178 Solved another way 54 No one charged 1,941

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

Fraud1,991 1,991
Identity fraud90 90
Excise Act59 59
Identity theft21 21
Fraudulent transactions relating to contracts and trade (Part X Criminal Code)4 4
Proceeds of crime (Part XII.2 Criminal Code)4 4
Counterfeiting3 3
Customs Act1 1

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

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.

Most white-collar conduct never enters this data. Securities matters go to provincial securities commissions, competition and corporate matters to federal regulators, tax matters to the Canada Revenue Agency, and professional misconduct to licensing bodies. What appears here is only the portion handled as a criminal offence by police.

This grouping has no official total in the source table. The figure shown is the sum of the offences listed beneath it.

The survey records all fraud as a single category regardless of dollar value. The Criminal Code distinguishes fraud over $5,000 from fraud under $5,000, but the UCR does not carry that split — a $200 bad cheque and a multimillion-dollar scheme are the same code. Theft, by contrast, is split into over and under $5,000 in this same survey. The fraud count here is therefore dominated by its smallest cases with no way to separate them from the serious ones.

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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