Quarter 2, 2025

The largest percentage decreases were for Homicide & Related offences (-42%), Kidnapping & Related offences (-16%) and Robbery, Extortion & Hijacking offences (-14%). Other notable decreases were in crime incidents of Burglary & Related offences (-7%), Fraud, Deception & Related offences (-6%) and Offences against Government, Justice Procedures & Organisation of Crime (-6%). In contrast, there were increases in the number of crime incidents of Sexual offences (+17%), Public Order & Other Social Code offences (+6%), Attempts/Threats to Murder, Assaults, Harassments & Related offences (+4%), and Weapons & Explosive offences (+4%) (See Figure 2.1, Tables 2.1, and PxStat Tables CJQ01 & CJQ07).

Table 2.1 Controlled Drug offences 16,387 (in Q2 2024), 16,044 (in Q2 2025), change is -343 (-2%).

The most notable increases in recorded crime incidents over the period were for Weapons & Explosives offences (+7%) and Public Order & Other Social Code offences (+7%) (See Figure 2.2, Tables 2.1 & 2.2, and PxStat Tables CJQ01 & CJQ07).

Table 2.3 Recorded crime incidents classified by offence group, annualised totals, Q2 2022 - Q2 2025 - Controlled Drug offences 16,711 (in Q2 2022), 17,648 (in Q2 2023), 16,387 (in Q2 2024), 16,044 (in Q2 2025), change is -667 (-4%) 

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Quarter 1, 2025

Table 2.2 compares the number of crime incidents by offence category between Q1 2024 and Q1 2025. The number of recorded crime incidents fell for eight out of the fourteen offence groups between Q1 2024 and Q1 2025.

The largest percentage decrease over this period took place for:

• Homicide & Related offences where the number of recorded crime incidents fell by 39% or 9 incidents.
• Kidnapping & Related offences – where the number of recorded crime incidents fell by 45% or 20 incidents.
• Burglary & Related offences – a fall of 16% or 406 incidents.
• Robbery, Extortion & Hijacking offences which fell by 14% or 85 incidents.
• Offences Against Government, Justice Procedures & Organisation of Crime where the number of incidents fell by 15% or 568 incidents.

In contrast, the most notable increases in recorded crime incidents over the period were for Sexual offences (+8%), Controlled Drug offences (+4%), and Weapons & Explosives offences (+3%) (See Figure 2.2, Tables 2.1 & 2.2, and PxStat Tables CJQ01 & CJQ07).

Analysis of changing crime trends since 2022: 

Among the other offence groups, there were also notable increases in recorded crime incidents, and these included:

• Weapons & Explosive offences – up 14% from 2,575 crime incidents in 2022 to 2,943 in 2025.
• Attempts/Threats to Murder, Assaults, Harassments & Related offences where the number of crime incidents rose by 12% from 22,106 in 2022 to 24,690 incidents in 2025.
• Offences against Government, Justice Procedures & Organisation of Crime – up 10% from 13,180 crime incidents in 2022 to 14,462 in 2025.
• Homicide & Related offences where the number of crime incidents rose by 8% from 62 in 2022 to 67 in 2025.

The number of recorded crime incidents did however fall in the following offence groups:

• Dangerous or Negligent Acts – down 12% from 8,503 recorded crime incidents in 2022 to 7,492 in 2025.
• Controlled Drug offences which fell by 8% from 17,773 in 2022 to 16,281 recorded crime incidents in 2025.
• Kidnapping & Related offences – down 4% to 152 recorded crime incidents in 2025.