PERSONNEL (as at Dec 31)	2020	2024	2025
Establishment
Superintendents or above	479	486	483
Inspectors	2 828	2 849	2 849
Junior police officers	29 695	29 740	29 715
Civilian staff	4 656	4 650	4 611
Auxiliary	4 501	4 501	4 501
Strength
Superintendents or above (1)	439	461	469
Inspectors	2 349	2 586	2 590
Junior police officers	24 994	23 990	24 131
Civilian staff	4 184	3 968	3 937
Auxiliary	2 911	3 283	3 448
Annual expenditure (2) （HK$ Million）	23 701	25 631	26 564

CRIMES	2020	2024	2025
Overall crime	63 232	94 747	89 137
Detection rate（%）	37.8	30.4	30.3
Overall crime per 100 000 population	845	1 259	1 189
Violent crime	9 391	10 485	8 823
Detection rate（%）	52.4	51.7	58.7
Violent crime per 100 000 population	126	139	118
Robbery	264	90	66
By specified type
Robbery with genuine firearms	0	0	0
Robbery with arms (including stun guns)	1	0	0
Robbery with pistol-like objects	5	1	1
Bank robbery	0	0	1
Goldsmith/watch shop robbery	12	2	2
Theft	20 314	22 433	20 032
By specified type
Snatching	163	64	49
Pickpocketing	432	476	208
Shop theft	7 756	8 764	7 923
Missing motor vehicles	895	389	440
Miscellaneous thefts	9 476	11 811	10 663
Homicide	22	19	194#
Rape	64	77	68
Indecent assault	682	1 185	1 137
Wounding and serious assault	4 563	3 614	3 363
Blackmail	1 399	3 031	1 674
Criminal intimidation	1 401	1 420	1 408
Burglary	2 095	1 220	816
Criminal damage	6 432	4 694	3 697
Deception	15 553	44 480	43 212
Serious drug offences	1 149	1 114	1 281

DRUG (3)	2020	2024	2025
Major drug seizure (kg)
Heroin	368	252*	244
Cannabis	1 071	4 341*	3 605
Methamphetamine (Ice)	1 499	1 380*	1 878
Ketamine	471	1 602*	2 236
Cocaine	1 269	2 677*	3 206
Ecstasy-type (no. of tablets)	5 994	6 808*	52 072

PERSONS ARRESTED FOR CRIMES	2020	2024	2025
Total arrests	29 565	36 269	31 082
By age group
Aged 10 - 15	1 218	946	1 038
Aged 16 - 20	2 769	1 894	1 624
Aged 21 or above	25 578	33 429	28 420
Persons discharged under the Superintendents’ Discretion Scheme (aged 10 - 17)	402	379	432

IDENTITY CARD CHECK / STOP AND SEARCH / ROAD BLOCK	2020	2024	2025
Number of persons checked	1 097 813	1 686 049	1 782 717
By type
Identity card check	216 420	357 614	322 931
Stop and search	844 830	1 279 641	1 404 747
Road block	36 563	48 794	55 039

COMPLAINTS AGAINST POLICE OFFICERS	2020	2024	2025
Total allegations endorsed by Independent Police Complaints Council	2 033	2 322	2 704
Allegations dealt with by informal resolution	210	242	305
Allegations not investigated because of curtailment, withdrawal or not pursuable	1 150	1 778	2 078
Allegations fully investigated	673	302	321
(Allegations fully investigated with substantiated results)	(88)	(66)	(80)
Substantiated rate for fully investigated allegations	13.1%	21.9%	24.9%

TRAFFIC	2020	2024	2025
Total number of accidents (case)	15 298	18 354	17 320
By severity
Fatal	96	83	92
Serious injury	1 912	751	467
Slight injury	13 290	17 520	16 761
Total number of casualties (person)	18 360	23 656	21 815
By severity
Fatal	97	88	95
Serious injury	2 021	796	519
Slight injury	16 242	22 772	21 201

TRAFFIC PROSECUTIONS	2020	2024	2025
Total traffic prosecutions	3 230 679	3 081 153	2 559 832
Summonses	46 680	53 374	47 721
Arrests	4 173	5 567	5 428
Fixed penalty tickets (parking offences)	2 707 869	2 543 197	2 068 107
Fixed penalty tickets (moving offences)	471 957	479 015	438 576
Summary of traffic prosecutions
By specified type
Drink driving	694	646	591
Dangerous driving (including causing grievous bodily harm and death)	1 062	1 216	1 077
Careless driving	16 238	20 997	19 868
Speeding	245 994	194 968	145 936
Pedestrian offences	4 473	9 105	6 689

TRAFFIC ACCIDENT RATES OF HONG KONG AND SELECTED CITIES	2019	2023	2024
Road Traffic Fatality rate per 1 000 000 population
Hong Kong SAR	15	13	12
Singapore	21	23	24
Tokyo	10	10	10
New York	26	31	32
Paris	16	33	31
London	14	11	12
Toronto	22	14	15

CRIME RATES OF HONG KONG AND SELECTED CITIES (4)	2019	2023	2024
Overall crime per 100 000 population
Hong Kong SAR	789	1 198	1 259
Singapore	616*	1 188	1 255
Tokyo	840	726	752
New York	2 030	3 066	3 039
Paris	14 254	N.A.	N.A.
London	10 243	10 580	10 640
Toronto	4 774*	5 416*	5 552
Murder per 100 000 population
Hong Kong SAR	0.3	0.4	0.3
Singapore	0.3	0.1*	0.2
Tokyo	0.8	0.7	0.7
New York	3.8	4.2	3.9
Paris	2.3	N.A.	N.A.
London	1.6	1.3	1.2
Toronto	2.6	2.3*	2.7
Robbery per 100 000 population
Hong Kong SAR	2.8	1.3	1.2
Singapore	2.7	N.A.	N.A.
Tokyo	1.8	1.7	1.9
New York	159.9	200.0	187.5
Paris	715.7	N.A.	N.A.
London	449.4	388.7	383.6
Toronto	108.9	79.9*	80.2
Burglary per 100 000 population
Hong Kong SAR	31.9	17.9	16.2
Singapore	3.3	2.3*	2.0
Tokyo	32.7	15.2	15.9
New York	117.5	167.2	154.7
Paris	816.8	N.A.	N.A.
London	871.7	634.6	590.7
Toronto	286.7*	245.6*	216.4