The city has registered a total of 12,627 criminal offences in 2023, of which only 3,603 cases were been detected, according to data released by the Bengaluru city police on Wednesday.
While the number of criminal offences have steadily risen over the past two years, the detection rate has fallen. Detection rate in these cases in 2023 has been 28.5%, while it was 45% in 2022. Motor vehicle theft topped the list of these offences with 5,909 cases.
The city saw a rise in the number of murders by 31% from 173 in 2022 to 207 in 2023, of which 202 cases have been detected. However, most of these murders were due to sudden provocation, illicit affairs, family issues, personal enmity among other reasons - murders which the police cannot prevent. Murders for gain, which reflects policing in the city, has come down drastically from a whopping 17 in 2022 to two in 2023 and both of them have been cracked. However, rowdy-related murders, another litmus test for policing, has shot up from four in 2022 to seven in 2023.
