The government delegate in Galicia, Pedro Blanco, today congratulated the Security Forces and Corps in Galicia for the results achieved in 2023 and which consolidate the Galician community as the third most secure autonomy in Spain. The data, made public this afternoon by the Ministry of the Interior, indicate that Galicia closed the year 2023 revalidating the position reached the previous year, the best since the current statistics are computed.
Pedro Blanco pointed out that, behind this position, there are two significant facts: on the one hand, the increase in the National Police and Civil Guard troops, which exceeded in 2023 by 6% those in 2016. On the other hand, the improvement in the rate of police effectiveness, which corresponds to the clarification of prison violations. The delegate revealed that in 2023, 42.3% of known prison offences in Galicia were clarified, and that this figure improved by 8% compared to the previous year.
The statistics of the Ministry show that the crime rate in the fourth and last quarter of 2023 was in Galicia of 35.2 prison offenses per 1,000 inhabitants, one tenth lower than the figure reached in December 2022. This also translates into an increase in the distance between the Galician and national crime rates. Thus, the index reached by Galicia in December 2023 is 16 points below the Spanish average (51.2).
Annual statistics
In absolute terms, the Crime Balance of 2023 states that between January and December 94,943 prison offences were known in Galicia, a figure almost equal to that of the previous year. By criminal typology, scams and thefts account for almost half (44.5%) of all known prison offences. Computer scams also confirm this stability and barely grow by 2%, up to 18,821 known cyber scams throughout the year.
By province, the crime rate in the province of A Coruña was 37.5 crimes per 1,000 inhabitants in December 2023 (6 tenths less than in the previous year); in Lugo it reached 28.3 crimes per 1,000 inhabitants (2.8 points higher than in 2022); in Ourense it reached 31.7 crimes per 1,000 inhabitants (9 tenths higher than in December 2022), and in Pontevedra the final rate of 2023 was 36 crimes per 1,000 inhabitants (7 tenths less than in the previous year).
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/