|
|
2009 |
|
2013 |
|
2014 |
|
||
PERSONNEL (as at 31 Dec) |
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|
Establishment |
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
|
Superintendents or above |
426 |
|
428 |
|
432 |
|
||
|
Inspectors |
2 218 |
|
2 345 |
|
2 409 |
|
||
|
Junior police officers |
25 334 |
|
25 755 |
|
25 885 |
|
||
|
Civilian staff |
4 742 |
|
4 612 |
|
4 577 |
|
||
|
Auxiliary |
4 500 |
|
4 500 |
|
4 500 |
|
||
|
Strength |
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
|
Superintendents or above |
430 |
(1) |
432 |
(1) |
439 |
(1) |
||
|
Inspectors |
2 162 |
|
2 296 |
|
2 305 |
|
||
|
Junior police officers |
25 142 |
|
25 655 |
|
25 765 |
|
||
|
Civilian staff |
4 585 |
|
4 444 |
|
4 312 |
|
||
|
Auxiliary |
3 821 |
|
3 745 |
|
3 612 |
|
||
|
Annual expenditure(2) (HK$ Million) |
12,239 |
|
14,598 |
|
15,144 |
|
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|
|
2009 |
|
2013 |
|
2014 |
|
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CRIMES |
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|
Overall crime |
77 630 |
|
72 911 |
|
67 740 |
|
||
|
Detection rate (%) |
45.6 |
|
43.2 |
|
43.4 |
|
||
|
Overall crime per 100 000 population |
1 113 |
* |
1 014 |
|
935 |
|
||
|
Violent crime |
14 193 |
|
12 153 |
|
11 073 |
|
||
|
Detection rate (%) |
64.3 |
|
64.5 |
|
61.9 |
|
||
|
Violent crime per 100 000 population |
204 |
* |
169 |
|
153 |
|
||
|
Robbery |
870 |
|
500 |
|
309 |
|
||
|
By selected type |
|
|
|
|
|
|||
|
Robbery with genuine firearms |
0 |
|
0 |
|
0 |
|||
|
Robbery with arms (including stun guns) |
5 |
|
0 |
|
5 |
|||
|
Robbery with pistol-like objects |
12 |
|
6 |
|
3 |
|||
|
Bank robbery |
6 |
|
4 |
|
7 |
|||
|
Goldsmith/watch shop robbery |
2 |
|
4 |
|
4 |
|||
|
Theft |
34 554 |
|
31 598 |
|
28 596 |
|||
|
By selected type |
|
|
|
|
|
|||
|
Snatching |
428 |
|
346 |
|
265 |
|||
|
Pickpocketing |
1 082 |
|
1 467 |
|
1 077 |
|||
|
Shop theft |
10 733 |
|
8 919 |
|
8 995 |
|||
|
Missing motor vehicles |
1 106 |
|
592 |
|
567 |
|||
|
Miscellaneous thefts |
18 640 |
|
18 414 |
|
16 122 |
|||
|
Homicide |
47 |
|
62 |
|
27 |
|||
|
Rape |
136 |
|
105 |
|
56 |
|||
|
Indecent assault |
1 318 |
|
1 463 |
|
1 115 |
|||
|
Wounding and serious assault |
7 688 |
|
6 163 |
|
5 629 |
|||
|
Blackmail |
354 |
|
733 |
|
885 |
|||
|
Criminal intimidation |
2 338 |
|
1 958 |
|
1 862 |
|||
|
Burglary |
4 489 |
|
3 573 |
|
2 700 |
|||
|
Criminal damage |
6 807 |
|
6 409 |
|
5 875 |
|||
|
Deception |
5 130 |
|
7 518 |
|
8 861 |
|||
|
Serious drug offences |
2 929 |
|
2 269 |
|
1 855 |
|||
|
|
2009 |
|
2013 |
|
2014 |
|
||
DRUG(3) |
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|
Major drug seizure (kg) |
||||||||
|
Heroin |
37 |
|
56 |
* |
49 |
|||
|
Cannabis |
107 |
|
85 |
* |
91 |
|||
|
Methamphetamine (Ice) |
40 |
|
141 |
* |
611 |
|||
|
Ketamine |
472 |
|
226 |
* |
382 |
|||
|
Cocaine |
103 |
|
269 |
* |
181 |
|||
|
Ecstasy-type (no. of tablets) |
7 146 |
|
1 405 |
* |
1 410 |
|||
|
|
2009 |
|
2013 |
|
2014 |
|
|
PERSONS ARRESTED FOR CRIMES |
|||||||
|
Total arrests |
40 725 |
|
36 609 |
|
33 679 |
||
|
By age group |
|||||||
|
Aged 10-15 |
4 006 |
|
2 083 |
|
1 510 |
||
|
Aged 16-20 |
4 684 |
|
3 314 |
|
2 814 |
||
|
Aged 21 or above |
32 035 |
|
31 212 |
|
29 355 |
||
|
Persons discharged under the Superintendents' Discretion Scheme |
2 220 |
|
1 059 |
|
834 |
||
|
(aged 10-17) |
|
|
|
|
|
||
|
|
2009 |
|
2013 |
|
2014 |
|
||
IDENTITY CARD CHECK/STOP AND SEARCH/ROAD BLOCK |
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|
Number of persons checked |
2 425 709 |
|
2 006 150 |
|
1 608 023 |
|
||
|
By type |
||||||||
|
Identity card check |
384 843 |
|
345 815 |
|
316 213 |
|||
|
Stop and search |
1 896 592 |
|
1 571 598 |
|
1 204 941 |
|||
|
Road block |
144 274 |
|
88 737 |
|
86 869 |
|||
|
|
2009 |
|
2013 |
|
2014 |
|
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TRAFFIC |
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|
Total number of accidents (case) |
14 316 |
|
16 089 |
|
15 790 |
|||
|
By severity |
||||||||
|
Fatal |
126 |
|
128 |
|
99 |
|||
|
Serious injury |
1 943 |
|
2 476 |
|
2 508 |
|||
|
Slight injury |
12 247 |
|
13 485 |
|
13 183 |
|||
|
Total number of casualties (person) |
18 138 |
|
20 596 |
|
19 854 |
|
||
|
By severity |
||||||||
|
Fatal |
139 |
|
130 |
|
100 |
|||
|
Serious injury |
2 096 |
|
2 630 |
|
2 615 |
|||
|
Slight injury |
15 903 |
|
17 836 |
|
17 139 |
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|
|
2009 |
|
2013 |
|
2014 |
|
||
TRAFFIC PROSECUTIONS |
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|
Total traffic prosecutions |
1 214 153 |
|
1 573 247 |
|
1 557 578 |
|
||
|
Summonses |
63 826 |
|
77 205 |
|
67 217 |
|
||
|
Arrests |
3 231 |
|
3 107 |
|
3 078 |
|
||
|
Fixed penalty tickets (parking offences) |
718 258 |
|
1 020 412 |
|
1 069 567 |
|
||
|
Fixed penalty tickets (moving offences) |
428 838 |
|
472 523 |
|
417 716 |
|
||
|
Summary of traffic prosecutions |
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|
By selected type |
||||||||
|
Drink driving |
1 024 |
|
953 |
|
930 |
|
||
|
Dangerous driving (including causing death) |
359 |
|
407 |
|
389 |
|
||
|
Careless driving |
15 760 |
|
16 772 |
|
16 231 |
|
||
|
Speeding |
192 268 |
|
239 945 |
|
209 626 |
|
||
|
Using handheld mobile phone/telecommunications equipment while vehicle is in motion |
34 056 |
|
27 254 |
|
22 015 |
|
||
|
Pedestrian offences |
20 866 |
|
23 600 |
|
20 015 |
|
||
|
|
2009 |
|
2013 |
|
2014 |
|
|
COMPLAINTS AGAINST POLICE OFFICERS |
|||||||
|
Total allegations endorsed by Independent Police Complaints Council(4) |
5 100 |
* |
4 673 |
* |
4 237 |
|
|
|
Allegations dealt with by informal resolution |
1 023 |
* |
393 |
|
357 |
|
|
|
Allegations not investigated because of curtailment, withdrawal or not pursuable |
2 841 |
* |
2 991 |
* |
2 686 |
|
|
|
Allegations fully investigated |
1 236 |
* |
1 289 |
* |
1 194 |
|
|
|
(Allegations fully investigated with substantiated results) |
(181) |
* |
(204) |
* |
(130) |
|
|
|
Substantiated rate for fully investigated allegations |
14.6% |
* |
15.8% |
|
10.9% |
|
|
|
|
2008 |
|
2012 |
|
2013 |
|
|
CRIME RATES OF HONG KONG AND SELECTED CITIES(5) |
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|
Overall crime per 100 000 population |
|||||||
|
Hong Kong SAR |
1 128 |
* |
1 061 |
|
1 014 |
||
|
Singapore |
684 |
|
584 |
|
549 |
||
|
Tokyo |
1 814 |
|
1 387 |
|
1 222 |
||
|
New York |
2 378 |
|
2 361 |
|
2 315 |
||
|
Paris |
10 973 |
|
10 455 |
|
10 849 |
||
|
London |
11 300 |
|
9 500 |
|
8 700 |
||
|
Toronto |
6 722 |
* |
4 570 |
* |
4 255 |
||
|
Murder per 100 000 population |
|||||||
|
Hong Kong SAR |
0.6 |
|
0.5 |
|
0.9 |
||
|
Singapore |
0.6 |
|
0.2 |
|
0.3 |
||
|
Tokyo |
1.4 |
|
0.9 |
|
0.7 |
||
|
New York |
6.3 |
|
5.1 |
|
4.0 |
||
|
Paris |
5.9 |
|
7.2 |
|
7.5 |
||
|
London |
1.7 |
|
1.3 |
|
1.3 |
||
|
Toronto |
2.5 |
|
2.0 |
* |
2.0 |
||
|
Robbery per 100 000 population |
|||||||
|
Hong Kong SAR |
15.8 |
|
8.6 |
|
7.0 |
||
|
Singapore |
19.9 |
|
7.3 |
|
7.5 |
||
|
Tokyo |
5.2 |
|
4.3 |
|
3.5 |
||
|
New York |
265.9 |
|
243.7 |
|
228.3 |
||
|
Paris |
647.4 |
|
789.8 |
|
829.3 |
||
|
London |
432.2 |
|
426.3 |
|
366.9 |
||
|
Toronto |
197.3 |
* |
175.3 |
* |
139.9 |
||
|
Burglary per 100 000 population |
|||||||
|
Hong Kong SAR |
68.6 |
* |
58.9 |
|
49.7 |
||
|
Singapore |
17.3 |
|
10.3 |
|
9.4 |
||
|
Tokyo |
89.1 |
|
60.2 |
|
58.3 |
||
|
New York |
238.1 |
|
224.8 |
|
197.8 |
||
|
Paris |
532.8 |
|
539.2 |
|
677.4 |
||
|
London |
1 245.5 |
|
1 138.9 |
|
1 072.3 |
||
|
Toronto |
465.3 |
* |
280.2 |
* |
248.9 |
||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
|
(1) |
Including officers on pre-retirement leave. |
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|
(2) |
Figures for 2009, 2013 and 2014 refer to the financial years of 2008/09, 2012/13 and 2013/14 respectively. |
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|
(3) |
These figures include seizures by the Customs and Excise Department. Figures for 2014 are provisional, pending confirmation by the Government Laboratory. |
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|
(4) |
The Independent Police Complaints Council Ordinance came into operation on 1 June 2009. The name in Chinese of Independent Police Complaints Council has changed from ‘投訴警方獨立監察委員會’ to ‘獨立監察警方處理投訴委員會’. |
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|
(5) |
The classifications and counting rules of crimes may differ across cities and within cities over time. Comparison of the figures has to be interpreted with caution. |
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|
* |
revised figure |
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Published by the Hong Kong Police Force