The Secretary for Security, Mr Cheong Kuok Va, said today Macao’s public order remained stable, with theft and robbery showing a drop from 401 cases to 261 in the first six months of this year compared with the same period last year. Disclosing crime figures for the first six months of the year, Mr Cheong said there were a total of 5,342 cases reported, an increase of 4% (+203 cases): this were mostly social-life-related offences, such as forgery of documents, which rose to 47.1%. The security chief said of the seven homicide cases reported in the same period, five were solved. The number of wounding and serious assault showed a rise of 9.7% (+74 cases). There were 419 "unclassified" crimes recorded in the reporting period, a decline of 1.2% (-5 cases), of which the employment of illegal immigration recorded 301 cases, an increase of 29.2% (+68 cases). Drug trafficking had increased 28.6% (+8 cases), but addiction to narcotics dropped to 58.8% (-48 cases) Juvenile crimes had recorded 75 cases, a drop of 8.5% (-7 cases), of which 125 people were juniors, a drop of 24.2% (-40 people). The Secretary stressed that the authority would continue to collect updated information and to strengthen their enforcement to combat crimes.
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