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Crime, Justice and Security Statistics - 2022

​Highlights

1. 1. Crime, justice and security statistics comprises statistics compiled from the Mauritius Police Force, the Office of Director of Public Prosecutions, the Judiciary, the Mauritius Prison Service & the Probation and Aftercare Service.
   
    
2. 2. Care should be taken in interpreting these figures. When comparing figures, it should be realised that police and judiciary figures are based on offences but prison and probation figures are based on offenders, and that many offenders are sentenced for more than one offence. Offences reported at the police can sometimes be reclassified as they proceed from police investigation through prosecution to final court sentence. Also trends in certain offences are subject to fluctuations as a result of sensitisation/awareness campaigns and intelligence-led operations. For example, the Road Traffic Act has been amended in August 2018.
   
    
     

    Key points

   Crime, Justice and Security​​ Statistics, Republic of Mauritius, 2021 & 2022 ​ ​
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   Key indicator​	2021	2022
   Overall offence rate (excluding contraventions) per 1,000 population	57.6	45.8
   Intentional homicide rate1 per 100,000 population	2.7	2.2
   Road traffic contravention rate per 1,000 population	88.8	90.3
   Juvenile delinquency rate per 1,000 population	4.2	4.6
   Conviction rate2 pronounced in court per 1,000 population (excluding contraventions)	18.2	24.4
   Imprisonment rate3 per 100,000 population	208.4	198.8
   Average prison occupancy level 4 (%)	70.1	66.2
   1 Intentional homicide rate excludes "abortion" and "arson causing death"
   2 Number of offences that led to conviction (as opposed to the number of persons convicted) per 1,000 population ​ ​
   3 Daily average number of detainees per 100,000 population ​ ​
   ​4 Prison population as a percentage of the prison capacity ​ ​​

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3.       Offences reported to the Police, excluding contraventions, decreased by 20.7% from 72,935 in 2021 to 57,846 in 2022 mainly due to a decrease in offences related to other criminal acts not elsewhere classified (-46.1%) from 46,495 to 25,076 and partly offset by an increase of 20.2% in offences related to acts against property only (burglary and theft) from 14,302 to 17,194.

4.          Road traffic contraventions increased by 1.4%, from 112,454 in 2021 to 113,977 in 2022.  It is to be noted that "exceeding speed limit" increased by 42.0% from 41,393 to 58,773.

 

5.          Some 36,128 persons were suspected, arrested and/or cautioned in the course of criminal investigations in 2022, up by 72.4% from 20,951 in 2021. The number of persons prosecuted rose by 9.3% from 14,556 in 2021 to 15,903 in 2022.

 

6.          From 2021 to 2022, the number of cases referred by Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to the Intermediate and Supreme Courts increased by 58.1% from 651 in 2021 to 1029 in 2022.

7.          The number of criminal cases lodged in Court increased by 25.6% from 75,038 in 2021 to 94,212 in 2022. During the same period, the number of criminal cases disposed of rose by 21.9% from 64,484 to 78,612.

8.          Out of the 5,016 adult convicts admitted in prison in 2022, some 74.6% were re-offenders who had been imprisoned in the past, regardless of any observation period.

 

9.          An average amount of Rs 858 was spent daily to maintain a detainee in 2022 in the Island of Mauritius compared to Rs 800 in 2021.

 

10.      The number of Probation Orders issued, decreased by 39.2% from 51 in 2021 to 31 in 2022.

 

11.      The number of offenders, subjected to community service orders, increased by 24.2% from 380 in 2021 to 472 in 2022.

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30 ​June 2023

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