The government delegate in Galicia, Pedro Blanco, celebrated today that Galicia consolidates in the end of 2024 its position as the third safest community in Spain, according to the Crime Balance that has just been published by the Ministry of the Interior. From all the figures, the delegate highlighted the new increase in the rate of police effectiveness, which reached the best ratio of the last eight years.
Pedro Blanco congratulated the Security Forces and Corps in Galicia for these operational figures, which occur in a context of stability in the crime rate. Thus, the year 2024 ended with a crime rate of 35.3 crimes per 1,000 inhabitants, one tenth higher than the previous year.
With regard to criminal offences, between January and December Galicia recorded 95,405 prison offences, barely half a point more than those registered in 2023. With respect to the national average, Galicia is 15.3 points below the crime rate in Spain, which in December reached 50.6 crimes per 1,000 inhabitants.
Police effectiveness
The delegate acknowledged the operational results of the Security Corps and Forces derived from the Ministry’s Balance Sheet, which point to a news and significant increase in police effectiveness. In the twelve months of 2025, 43.1 of the prison violations committed in Galicia were clarified, 2.4% more than the previous year and the best figure since 2016. Pedro Blanco stressed that this rate is particularly high in typologies as worrying as crimes against sexual freedom. In this case, National Police and Civil Guard clarified almost nine out of ten crimes committed in Galicia in this category.
Cybercrime
The delegate again focused on cybercrime, which recorded an increase of almost 10% in the year 2024 as a whole, in such a way that one of every four prison offences committed in Galicia that year had used telematic means. And he pointed out that, if the figure of cybercrimes were excluded from the Galician global count, criminality in 2024 would accumulate a drop of 2%.
On cybercrime, Pedro Blanco drew attention to the significant increase in crimes that are not scams as such, and that rise by about 20%. They are those who use networks and technologies as a form of aggression, impersonation or extortion.
Crime Balance 2024
The Ministry of the Interior publishes in this link The complete report with data by province, by cities of more than 10,000 inhabitants and municipalities of more than 20,000 inhabitants.