HK's Jan-Apr crime rate drops 2.2%
發佈日期: 2025-05-30 18:42
TVB News
In the first four months of this year, total crime cases were down 2.2 percent year-on-year.
But cases involving etomidate, or space oil, jumped ten-fold.
Among the 28,152 cases, 192 are related to space oil.
Still, the bulk of the cases are connected to fraud, which accounted for 47 percent of the total.
It also marked an increase of 9 percent over the same period last year.
But the amount of proceeds derived from crimes fell by 30 percent year-on-year.
The number of violent crimes dropped by 14 percent.
Extortion cases saw a significant decline, with 629 cases representing a 30 percent fall.
