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In 2022, Singapore ranked as the first safest country or area in the Global Law and Order Index. [3] It was also ranked third safest city in 2021 by the Economist Intelligence Unit, [4] [5] and 24th safest out of 136 countries in the Global Organised Crime Index by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime. [6] [7]
The list of countries by UNODC homicide rate is typically expressed in units of deaths per 100,000 individuals per year. A homicide rate of 30 (out of 100,000) corresponds to 0.03% of the population dying by homicide. [1][2][3] The reliability of underlying national murder rate data may vary. [4][5] Only UNODC -vetted data is used in the main ...
The following is a list of major crimes in Singapore.They are arranged in chronological order. Major crimes such as murder, homicide, kidnapping, rape and sexual assault, as well as firearms- and explosive-related crimes, are dealt with by the Major Crime Division of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Singapore Police Force. [1]
29 March 2024: 28 people residing in Singapore between the ages of 18 and 59 were arrested for various charges relating to child sexual exploitation. For five weeks, the Singapore Police Force collaborated with the Hong Kong Police Force and South Korean National Police Agency to arrest a total of 273 suspects, with the youngest being 12 years ...
Global Peace Index (GPI) is a report produced by the Australia-based NGO Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP) which measures the relative position of nations' and regions' peacefulness. [2] The GPI ranks 163 independent states and territories (collectively accounting for 99.7 per cent of the world's population) according to their levels of ...
All the data in this table is from United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). [4] There are 2 countries in the UNODC dataset that are missing from the table below: Egypt (2.062 rate in 2011) and India (0.297 rate in 2012). Asterisk (*) in Location column indicates a Crime in LOCATION article. Homicide rates by firearm per 100,000 ...
The Singapore Police Force was founded in 1820, starting with just 11 men under the command of Francis James Bernard, the son-in-law of William Farquhar. [10] With no background nor knowledge on policing, Bernard had to work from scratch, as well as occasionally turning to Farquhar for help.
28–29 December 2013: 37-year-old Dexmon Chua Yizhi was found dead in Lim Chu Kang on 1 January 2014. Two suspects, 53-year-old Chia Kee Chen and 64-year-old Chua Leong Aik, were arrested and charged with murder. A third suspect, Djatmiko Febri Irwansyah (late 20s), had fled Singapore.