Chief Constable Report: Crime up by 10%

Fri, 05 Jul 2019

There has been an 10% increase in reported crimes on the Island over the past 12 months.

Chief Constable Gary Roberts have published his latest annual report which states more than 2500 crimes were committed between April 2018 and March this year.

Mental health issues, violence and drug offences are three areas which Police are consistently dealing with.

It was noted by the Chief Constable that despite this increase, levels still remain significantly lower than 10 years ago.

Chief Constable Gary Roberts said: ‘Over the past year violence, drugs and mental health matters have played a large part of the work that the Constabulary has been involved in. A change in approach for the Constabulary aims to enable officers to proactively tackle crime and the force is already starting to see some of the benefits of this.