Members of public contributed to the arrest of 824 criminals involved in outraging of modesty, housebreaking, robbery, motor vehicle theft, snatch theft, murder and rape. These public-assisted arrests accounted for 42% of the total arrests in these crimes for 2005, higher than the 39% recorded in 2004.

¹⁰ Public-assisted arrests refer to cases where the public had provided information, made a citizen’s arrest, or alerted the police to a crime in progress.