The government delegate in Galicia, Pedro Blanco, has celebrated today that Galicia continues this third quarter of 2023 among the three safest communities in Spain, according to the data of the Crime Balance that has been made public today by the Ministry of the Interior. The official statistics confirm that Galicia maintains the third place in the national computation and the best position since the current statistical series are computed.
The Ministry’s data show that the crime rate for the third quarter of the year was 32.6 criminal offenses per 1,000 inhabitants, 0.6 points lower than that for the same dates last year. With respect to the national rate (50.8), Galicia is more than 16 points below, which means a 32% lower. As for the total number of criminal offenses in Galicia, the decrease was 2%, registering between January and September of this year 71,480 criminal offenses, which represents 1,623 less than in the same period of the year 2022.
The delegate put behind these figures the work of the State Security Forces and Corps, which he acknowledged again. In this quarter, they managed to maintain the best crime clarification rate of the last five years. The delegate highlighted the figures reached in crimes against sexual freedom, which reached a clarification rate of more than 85%.
With regard to the typology of crimes, there is a 10% drop in computer scams and 6% in crimes against property. On the contrary, crimes against people and crimes against sexual freedom increase by 8% and crimes against sexual freedom by 17%.
Police force
The delegate recalled that Galicia currently has almost 9,000 National Police and Civil Guard agents, the highest number of personnel of the State Security Forces and Corps in history. This is a higher figure than that recorded at the end of 2011, a date that until now marked the maximum number of police officers in the Community. Since that year, the personnel of the National Police and the Civil Guard experienced an accused reduction process that led to the fact that, in December 2017, both bodies numbered 8,214 troops in the Community. Today’s figures are nearly 7% higher than they were seven years ago.
Data by provinces
With respect to the same date last year, the province of A Coruña has registered a decrease of 4.5% in its crime rate and computes 36.4 criminal offenses per 1,000 inhabitants. This index also fell by 5.1% in Pontevedra, where the crime rate remains in this third quarter at 34.8 crimes per 1,000 inhabitants.
On the contrary, there are slight increases in the provinces of Lugo and Ourense, within which these provinces register the best security indices in Galicia. In the case of Ourense, the crime rate increases by 0.3% and reaches 30.9 criminal offenses per 1,000 inhabitants. In Lugo, the increase is from 3.5% to 26.3 criminal offences per 1,000 inhabitants. In any case, Lugo remains the Galician province with the best crime rate.
The complete report with data by province, by cities of more than 10,000 inhabitants and municipalities of more than 20,000 inhabitants can be consulted in the statistical portal of criminality of the Ministry of the Interior at: https://estadisticasdecriminalidad.ses.mir.es/publico/portalestadistico/