Conventional crime in Cantabria fell by 5.8% during the first quarter of the year, according to the crime balance published today by the Ministry of the Interior. This decline consolidates the downward trend recorded as early as 2024, and confirms Cantabria as one of the safest autonomous communities in the country.
Among the most relevant data, it should be noted that no homicide occurred between January and March, compared to three in the first quarter of 2024, although four attempts were recorded.
There is also a sharp decline in property-related crime. Burglaries in homes and establishments fell by 13.8%, from 480 to 414 cases, consolidating the downward trend already observed during 2024, when the number of burglaries fell by 14.6%.
Similarly, vehicle theft has fallen by 26.4% (from 53 to 39 offences) and drug trafficking by 25% (from 28 to 21). The serious and less serious crimes of injury and tumultuous squabbling have been reduced by 33% (from 103 to 69).
As for crimes against sexual freedom, they remain practically stable (from 38 to 37 cases), while theft increases slightly by 2% (from 1,100 to 1,122).
On the contrary, cybercrime continues to rise and grows again by 13.1%, reaching 1,814 criminal offenses.
Computer scams already account for almost 1 in 3 crimes committed in the autonomous community - 30.3% of the total - which makes this phenomenon one of the main security challenges.
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The delegate of the Government in Cantabria, Eugenia Gómez de Diego, has positively valued the decrease in criminality registered in Cantabria and has conveyed her congratulations and public thanks to all the agents of the National Police and the Civil Guard assigned in the region, "excellent professionals, with a vocation of public service, who every day work in the street for a safer Cantabria".
Likewise, Gómez de Diego has highlighted the sustained effort of the Ministry of the Interior to strengthen police resources. “We have more than 1,700 agents in our community, 7.1% more since the government of Pedro Sánchez,” he said.
Thus, he has guaranteed that the Government of Spain will continue to provide the State security forces and bodies "with more human and material means" and, in this regard, he has recalled that the Council of Ministers already approved this month of April the call for 6,032 new places for National Police and Civil Guard within the offer of public employment for 2025. “Since 2018, replacement rates of more than 100% have been applied to recover the 13,077 troops lost between 2011 and 2017. The Government of Spain will continue in this same line,” he said.