Crime, Justice and Security Statistics - Year 2024
Highlights
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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.
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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.
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3. Offences reported to the Police, excluding contraventions, decreased by 9.3% from 58,794 in 2023 to 53,331 in 2024 mainly due to a decrease in offences related to acts against property only (- 23.1%) from 17,583 to 13,519 and partly offset by an increase of 8.2 % in offences related to acts against public order, authority and provisions of the State from 11,647 to 12,599.
4. Road traffic contraventions (excluding fixed penalty notice) increased by 62.1%, from 133,434 in 2023 to 216,326 in 2024. It is to be noted that "Motor vehicle licence not affixed" increased by 182.8% from 7,625 to 21,562.
5. Some 28,858 persons were suspected, arrested and/or cautioned in the course of criminal investigations in 2024, up by 0.2% from 28,796 in 2023. The number of persons prosecuted rose by 0.1% from 25,862 in 2023 to 25,877 in 2024.
6. From 2023 to 2024, the number of cases referred by Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to the Intermediate and Supreme Courts decreased by 45.5% from 987 in 2023 to 538 in 2024.
7. The number of criminal cases lodged in Court decreased by 16.0% from 88,531 in 2023 to 74,384 in 2024. During the same period, the number of criminal cases disposed of rose by 1.1% from 77,063 to 77,909.
8. Out of the 5,078 adult convicts admitted in prison in 2024, some 3,728 (73.4%) were re-offenders who had been imprisoned in the past, regardless of any observation period.
9. An average amount of Rs 934 was spent daily to maintain a detainee in 2024 in the Island of Mauritius compared to Rs 955 in 2023.
10. The number of Probation Orders issued, decreased by 3.8% from 52 in 2023 to 50 in 2024.
11. The number of offenders, subjected to community service orders, decreased by 7.9% from 367 in 2023 to 338 in 2024.
June 2025