THE sexual assault with penetration and the intentional homicides and completed murders increased in particular in the second quarter of this 2024 in the Valencian Communityas evidenced by the Quarterly crime report from the Ministry of the Interior. Specifically, penetrative sexual assaults have increased by 30% compared to the same period of the previous year. While intentional homicides and completed murders have seen a huge increase in percentage, reaching an increase of 112.5%. Conversely, kidnappings have been reduced by 47.2%. In absolute figures, criminal offences in the Valencian Community have gone from 115,797 in the first six months of 2023 to 117,746 in the first half of 2024.
These figures come in a context characterized by the statement of the Ministry of Justice and Interior of the Generalitat Valenciana of more troops of the national police and the civil guard and amidst the incessant work of security forces and law enforcement officers to provide the best response to criminal reality.
Already in a meeting held in April 2024, representatives of the Spanish Police Confederation (CEP) and the Spanish Civil Guard Association (AEGC) demanded an update of the jobs in the Ministry of the Interior, since they had not been renewed since the years 2008 and 2010. A circumstance that has made them find themselves underfunded in the face of the increase in the reality of crime due to population growth and increase in illegal immigration.
Specifically, the intentional homicides and murders carried out in the Valencian Community numbered 16 at the end of the second quarter of 2023. Meanwhile, in the current By 2024, this number has increased to 34These figures represent, in percentage, an increase of 112.5%while at the state level the increase has been much more moderate. Specifically, from 180 in the first half of 2023 to 195 in the first half of 2024. 8.3%.
Regarding the sexual assault with penetrationat the state level, in Spain they have increased from 2,305 in the first six months of 2023 to 2,465 from January to June 2024, representing a percentage increase of 6.9%.
In the Valencian Community, this type of crime increased from 204 in 2023 to 267 at the end of June 2024, with a 30% increase. Specifically, 23 points above the state average.
