North Lanarkshire ranks as the fourth worst council area in Scotland when it comes to recorded crime.
Statistics reveal that not only does the local authority area have the fourth highest recorded number of crimes overall at 530 per 10,000 people, it also has the fourth largest number of sexual violence crimes.
The data that covers the period from 2020 to 2021 reveals that there were 827 crimes of sexual violence recorded in North Lanarkshire.
