Quezon City saw an average 19.92 percent decrease in focused crimes—such as homicide, robbery, theft, motorcycle theft, motor vehicle theft, physical injury and rape—from January to December 2017 compared to the same period in 2016, police said Monday.
Chief Supt. Guillermo Eleazar, Quezon City Police District director, said focused crimes went down from 7,149 crimes in 2016 to 5,725, or a decrease of almost 20 percent.
Murder cases went down by 1.8 percent, from 331 incidents last year to 325 in 2017, Eleazar added. However, homicides went up by 34 incidents, with 54 cases in 2017 against 2016’s 20.
Robbery plunged by 23.6 percent, with only 1,096 incidents in 2017 versus 1,454 in 2016, while theft also dipped by the same percentage, from 3,098 in 2016 to 2,366 in 2017, he added.
Motorcycle theft dropped by 19.43 percent, and motor vehicle theft “tremendously decreased” from 138 last year to only 64 in 2017, or a decrease of 53.62 percent, Eleazar noted.
Physical injury cases went down 10.27 percent from 1,451 in 2016 to 1,302 for 2017. Rape cases also fell by 23.62 percent, from 271 incidents to 207 in 2017.
The year-on-year decrease in crimes was consistent with that over an 18-month period from July 2016 to December 2017. During this span, focused crimes in Quezon City fell by 40 percent, from 14,908 to 8,931 cases, compared to the previous period from January 2015 to June 2016, the QCPD noted.
As proof, Eleazar said homicides decreased by 27.16 percent, or from 81 to 59 incidents; robberies fell 44.06 percent from 3,014 to 1,686; and thefts decreased 44.58 percent, from 6,712 to 3,720 incidents.
In addition, motorcycle and motor vehicle thefts also dropped by 50.74 percent and 74.82 percent, respectively, Eleazar said. Physical injury cases dropped 32.77 percent, from 2,969 to 1,996, and rape incidents fell 26.41 percent from 462 to 340.
However, the QCPD noted a rise in murders from 319 to 563 during the same span.