These are figures symbols of a return to normal life and everyday delinquency. The prefecture of Haute-Vienne took stock on Monday of delinquency in the department in 2021. After an atypical year 2020, marked by two confinements and curfews, the figures are on the rise again. But “no alert” summarizes the prefect, Fabienne Balussou. These figures are “source of vigilance”, adds the public prosecutor, Baptiste Porcher.
Increase in property crimes
Increase in burglaries, car thefts, damage and thefts with violence for which 184 acts committed last year. As for the police areathe departmental director of public security, Yannick Salabert, notes a return to the level of delinquency of 2019 with an increase in delinquency on the public highway, “petty delinquency”. On the side of the policeGeneral Bernard Thibaud, who commands the departmental group, there are 10,320 interventions in 2021, an increase of 7%, which rises to 14% for night interventions.
Increase in harm to people
Voluntary attacks on physical integrity increased by 24.6% to reach 2,790 acts in 2021. In this area, sexual violence and domestic violence are exploding. +30% over one year for domestic violence and +64% for sexual violence.
This increase is probably linked to a certain freedom of speech and easier filing of complaints. Besides a Family Protection House was born this summer, managed by the gendarmerie. And an Melanie room dedicated to the hearings of the youngest is being installed at the Limoges police station.
On the judicial level, the prosecutor recalls that 3 to 4 people are referred each week before the court of Limoges. Today 9 serious phones hazard are allocated in the department and 5 anti reconciliation bracelets were laid in a year.
Drug trafficking
904 people were implicated by the police and the gendarmerie in 2021. That is a 40% increasewhich can also be attributed to the establishment of fixed criminal fines, which directly punishes the possession of narcotics.
Thus, 151 kilos of grass and 529 kilos of cannabis resin have been seized. Nearly 2.5 kilos of cocaine or even more than 2 kilos of amphetamines. Of the 14 deal points in the department, 5 still remain to be neutralized.