Secretary for Security, Mr Cheong Kouk Va, said today that the police will study more effective ways to prevent and combat crime. Mr Cheong said this at a press conference to release the crime statistics for the first nine months of this year, which saw a slight increase of 8.9 per cent to 10,193 cases, up 834 cases. This increase was attributed to crimes against society: arson, the use of forged doucments, and transferring counterfeit money and forgery. Meanwhile, thanks to promotional anti robbery campaigns, the number of such cases went down 29.4 per cent, from 401 cases to 283 cases, compared with the same period last year. In crimes against the person -- one of the five major categories of crimes classified in the Penal Code of Macao – wounding accounted for a rise of 3.5 per cent to1,271 cases. Criminal intimidation cases increased 71.4 per cent to 108 cases. Crimes against property increased 6.5 per cent to 5,707 cases while robbery cases recorded a drop of 19.2 per cent to 105 cases; theft cases dropped 5.2 per cent to 2,880 cases. Employment of illegal immigrants cases increased 15 per cent to 361 cases and drug abuse recorded an increase of 94.7 per cent and 23.6 per cent respectively. Juvenile crimes recorded 36 cases with a drop of 47.1 per cent from the corresponding period last year. The police also caught 32,321 illegal immigrants and overstayers in the first nine months. Among the overstayers, 963 (+88) were Mainland visitors who had entered Macao illigally, and 25,678 (+4,245) were Mainland visitors with identification documents of others. There were 2,179 (-143) foreign visitors who overstayed.
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