Crime, Justice and Security Statistics - 2025
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.
Key points
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Crime, Justice and Security Statistics, Republic of Mauritius, 2024 & 2025 | |
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Key indicator |
2024 |
2025 |
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Overall offence rate (excluding contraventions) per 1,000 population |
42.8 |
43.3 |
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Intentional homicide rate1 per 100,000 population |
2.8 |
2.7 |
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Road traffic contravention2 rate per 1,000 population |
254.6 |
283.3 |
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Juvenile delinquency rate per 1,000 population |
7.1 |
5.7 |
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Conviction rate3 pronounced in court per 1,000 population (excluding contraventions) |
18.0 |
19.2 |
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Imprisonment rate4 per 100,000 population |
210.3 |
226.3 |
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Average prison occupancy level
5(%) |
70.2 |
74.3 |
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1 Intentional homicide rate excludes "abortion" and "arson causing death" |
2 As from year 2024, data include contraventions established under fixed penalty notice
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3 Number of offences that led to conviction (as opposed to the number of persons convicted) per 1,000 population |
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4 Daily average number of detainees per 100,000 population |
5 Prison population as a percentage of the prison capacity |
3. Offences reported to the Police, excluding contraventions, increased by 1.0% from 53,331 in 2024 to 53,867 in 2025 mainly due to an increase in offences related to “acts involving controlled drugs or other psychoactive substances" (+ 12.3%) from 4,373 to 4,913 and partly offset by a decrease of 11.4% in offences related to “Acts against property only" from 13,519 to 11,981.
4. Road traffic contraventions (including fixed penalty notice) increased by 11.1%, from 317,144 in 2024 to 352,296 in 2025. It is to be noted that "Exceeding speed limit" increased by 25.4% from 72,109 to 90,428.
5. Some 28,966 persons were suspected, arrested and/or cautioned during criminal investigations in 2025, up by 0.4% from 28,858 in 2024. The number of persons prosecuted rose by 2.3% from 25,877 in 2024 to 26,478 in 2025.
6. From 2024 to 2025, the number of cases referred by Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to the Intermediate and Supreme Courts increased by 48.3% from 538 in 2024 to 798 in 2025.
7. The number of criminal cases lodged in Court increased by 5.1% from 74,384 in 2024 to 78,189 in 2025. During the same period, the number of criminal cases disposed of fell by 5.3% from 77,909 to 73,797.
8. Out of the 5,597 adult convicts admitted in prison in 2025, some 4,165 (74.4%) were re-offenders who had been imprisoned in the past, regardless of any observation period.
9. An average amount of Rs 1,010 was spent daily to maintain a detainee in 2025 in the Island of Mauritius compared to Rs 934 in 2024.
10. The number of Probation Orders issued, decreased by 64.0% from 50 in 2024 to 18 in 2025.
11. The number of offenders, subjected to community service orders, increased by 22.2% from 338 in 2024 to 413 in 2025.
June 2026
