• The delegate of the Government of Spain in the Community of Madrid, Francisco Martín Aguirre, has taken stock of the data published by the Secretary of State for Security of the Ministry of the Interior in our region.
• The crime rate fell 0.5 points in the first quarter of 2025.

The government delegate to the Community of Madrid, Francisco Martín Aguirre, today highlighted the decrease of half a point in the crime rate of the Community of Madrid during the period from January to March of the year 2025, which means a total of 40 criminal offenses less a day. An even greater decline if we speak only of conventional criminality, with 45 crimes less per day.

This is reflected in the Crime Balance of the Secretary of State for Security of the Ministry of the Interior for the first quarter of the year.

The crime rate, that is, the criminal offenses per 1000 inhabitants, was in this period at a rate of 56.5, with a drop of 0.5 points, compared to the data of the year 2024, which closed the year with the best figures of the last decade. In 2025, this positive trend continues and has been observed since 2012.

According to Francisco Martín, these data show that it is going “in the right direction”, although he has wanted to avoid falling into self-complacency and ensure that work will continue to achieve even better data in the next quarter.

Result of police work and increase of troops

He also wanted to thank the State Security Forces and Corps for their “extraordinary work” in the region, which is reflected in an increase of 5.2% in the number of clarifications and 1.3% in the number of arrests.

Along with this, he has highlighted the effort of the Government of Spain to reinforce the squads, having managed to close the previous year with the maximum historical number of agents in the region, “more than ten percent compared to 2018”, and improving the infrastructures and police equipment.

Data disaggregated by criminal typology

Crime indicators distinguish between conventional crime and so-called cybercrime. Thus, in the first quarter of 2025 there was a reduction of 4.9 points in conventional crime. It has gone from 83,307 conventional infractions in the first quarter of 2024 to 79,194 in 2025. This reduction in conventional crime is higher than the figure recorded for the whole of Spain (-3.2%).

Cybercrime rebounded slightly in this first quarter by 2.7%, this variation being lower than the fall in cybercrime recorded in the whole of 2024 (-6.2 points). This criminal phenomenon is being corrected and moderated thanks to the adaptation of the State Security Forces and Bodies to these new forms of crime and a greater awareness of all citizens. Thus, computer scams, the main cybercrime, have experienced a reduction of -1.7%. However, the rest of cybercrime doubles the figures of the rest of Spain, so the government delegate has claimed the importance of pedagogical work so that citizens learn to protect themselves against this type of crime.

By specific typology of criminal offences, in 2025 we can see a significant decrease in crimes with a high media impact and which generate a greater sense of insecurity in our citizens. Among them, the marked reduction in wilful homicides and attempted murders: from 36 to 29; the maintenance of the low number of wilful homicides and completed murders: 5, or the reduction in kidnappings: from 5 to 4.

On the other hand, in robberies with violence or intimidation there has been a reduction of 15.5 points (data significantly better than that of the whole of Spain, with a fall of -9.4%) and the drop in the number in robberies of 9.3 points (much higher than -3.3% of the whole of Spain) stands out.

Also very significant are the reductions of burglaries with force in homes (-14.4%) or vehicle subtractions (-11.7%).

With regard to the tumultuous squabbles and crimes of injury, they increase by +3.5%, as they do also at the national level, which is why they focus much of the police efforts and represent an intensification of the work of citizen security.

Also noteworthy is the increase in the number of crimes for drug trafficking (+19.1%), which has a positive reading, since it is related to the intensification of the actions of the FCSE in this area and are the result of the police investigation.

Crimes against sexual freedom

During the first quarter of 2025, crimes against sexual freedom in the Community of Madrid have undergone an evolution similar to the national total, registering an upward trend, interrupted in 2020 by the COVID-19 pandemic. In this sense, 8.8% more events were reported in this first quarter (above +3.8% nationwide), reflecting a reduction in the dark figure and greater confidence of women to report.

From a detailed analysis of the facts known in this period, it should be noted that the greatest number of crimes of this type are sexual assaults without penetration, which account for more than 77% of the total crimes against sexual freedom, while sexual assaults with penetration account for 23% of the total recorded events.

The greatest increase in cases has occurred in sexual assaults without penetration, 15.3 points more.

Meanwhile, penetrating sexual assaults have been reduced by 8.7% (as opposed to the +7.6% uptick nationwide).

It is necessary to indicate several aspects that can help to understand this type of crime: the greatest number of cases occur inside homes, not in entertainment venues, and there is some kind of link between victim and aggressor.

From the sustained increase of this type of crime in recent years, it could be deduced a progressive decrease in the “hidden figure”, related not so much to an increase in the number of acts committed but to an increase in the number of complaints for the active policies of awareness and reduction of social and personal tolerance against this type of crime.

The Government Delegation is closely following the situation of complaints of sexual violence, which is why a new round of meetings are being held with social and institutional actors to analyse and strengthen the proceedings.

Madrid city and other municipalities

The city of Madrid also recorded a decrease of 6.3% in the number of criminal offenses, and of -1.2 in the crime rate, which stands at 68.2 points. Conventional crime fell by 6.5%, with 4,000 crimes less; and cybercrime fell by 5.6%.

In the reduction of crime in the Community of Madrid, the data of decrease in the number of criminal offenses of municipalities such as San Martín de la Vega (-19.2%), San Sebastián de los Reyes (-17.6%), Ciempozuelos (-15.4%), Arganda del Rey (-13.1%), Colmenar Viejo (-11%) and Alcorcón (-10%) stand out.

Especially noteworthy is the municipality of Parla, with a 7.5% decrease in the total number of criminal offences, with a decrease in conventional crime of -6.6% compared to the same period of the previous year. All this thanks to the “Parla Plan” launched in the town at the end of last year.