Over two thousand fewer complaints in a single year, with a decline driven mainly by thefts and robberies. In the province of Rimini, reported crimes fell from 20,425 in 2024 to 18,347 in 2025, a drop of 10.2%. The territory slipped from fifth to sixth place in the national crime rankings, while still remaining among the provinces with the highest number of complaints relative to population.
The sharpest decline was in robberies, down 33%. Thefts fell by 18.7% and property damage by 8.3%. The total number of reported crimes is among the lowest in the past thirty years: in 1996 there were 28,688, more than ten thousand more than in 2025. In the meantime, however, both the population and the administrative boundaries of the province have changed, factors that must be taken into account when making comparisons.
The decline has not been continuous. In 2013 there were 26,741 reported crimes, and 26,631 in 2014. In the following years the number fell to 15,642 in 2020, before rising again to 21,118 in 2022 and remaining just above twenty thousand in 2023 and 2024. 2025 marks a new downturn.
Provincial President Jamil Sadegholvaad points to the weight of tourism: the number of people present in the area rises well above the resident population, which is the figure used to calculate the ratio of reported crimes. Another factor, in his view, is the varying propensity of citizens to report offences.
Sadegholvaad credits investments in video surveillance and coordinated efforts among police forces, municipalities and local law enforcement. In Rimini, over the past fifteen years, the number of surveillance cameras has grown from 44 to 464. The goal is to reach 557 by early 2027, with investments exceeding four million euros. Urban redevelopment projects have also contributed. “There has been, and continues to be, work carried out by the local area,” the president noted.
The call for more officers remains. “There are responses that the State itself must provide in terms of adjusting police force staffing levels,” Sadegholvaad stressed. The president is also calling for a different administrative classification for the Rimini Police Headquarters (Questura), one that accounts for the area’s tourist influx, and reiterated his willingness to allocate part of the tourist tax toward improving working conditions for police forces.
Despite the decline, the province remains fifth in Italy for theft reports, with 2,730 per hundred thousand residents, and tenth for robberies, with 239 cases in total, equal to 70 per hundred thousand residents. It also ranks fifth for cases of grievous bodily harm and seventeenth for drug-related offences. By contrast, it ranks 87th for mafia-type association, 89th for attempted murder, 94th for smuggling and 99th for arson.
On the infrastructure front, the matter of the former Giulio Cesare barracks remains unresolved. The site is intended to house the Cittadella della Sicurezza (Security Citadel), serving the entire province. Sadegholvaad is pressing for progress within a reasonable timeframe.
