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Thu 09 Sep 20001999 crime report figures incomplete, Garda admitsThe Garda has acknowledged that its 1999 crime report, published yesterday, gives incomplete figures for several categories of serious crime.As the Minister for Justice welcomed the fall in reported crime yesterday, it emerged that the report has incomplete statistics about serious crimes including sexual assaults, robberies and burglaries where weapons such as syringes were used, burglaries and robberies of tourists. The statistics for these categories are complete only for the first nine months of the year. The report says this is due to problems with the Garda's new multimillion pound computerised information system, PULSE.