In 2024 bank robberies decreased by 36.3% compared to the previous year

ROMA (ITALPRESS) – The collaboration between banks and law enforcement forces is a fundamental pillar for prevention and safety on the territory. In 2024, bank robberies decreased by 36.3% compared to the previous year.

In decrease also episodes against fuel distributors (-28.6%), pharmacies (-19.9%) and post offices (- 6.6%). Established the kidnappings committed in public (-0.1%), which confirm the most frequent, representing 57.6% of the total. These are the main results of the new edition of the Intersectoral Report on Predatory Crime that takes into account the robberies carried out in 2024 by comparing the different sectors exposed to the phenomenon.

“The Report – underlined the Director-General of ABI, Marco Elio Rottigni – represents an important informative heritage and has relapsed practice in providing the necessary support for the definition of strategies for prevention and counter-crime by institutions, banking and other productive sectors. Collaboration with law enforcement forces is the basis of the necessary strengthening of synergies between public and private with the aim of promoting an increasingly shared security culture.”.

“The good of security – said the Prefect Raffaele Grassi, Deputy Director-General of Public Security – Central Director of the Criminal Police – must be built in synergy, in a common effort among all stakeholders, pursuing an integrated security model, which allows to best perform preventive and interventional devices of law enforcement. The sector’s data, in a sharp decline, are the concrete example.”.

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