Lahore Crime Rate, Report, Statistics & News Today

Lahore is Pakistan’s second largest city, it’s relatively safer than Pakistan’s largest city Karachi but with a population of more than 11 million people, all types of criminal activity happen here and people of Lahore just keep on losing their valuable lives or property on daily basis.

Lahore Crime Report

This report was compiled in the last days of 2017 and present an accurate picture of crimes that happened in Lahore during the whole of last year:

Top Lahore Areas Crime Wise

Total Reported Crimes: 11,225

Position	Division	Total Crimes
1st	Saddar Division	2,496
2nd	Cantonment Division	2,303
3rd	City Division	2,129
4th	Model Town Division	1,794
5th	Iqbal Town Division	1,347
6th	Civil Lines Division	1,156

Top Lahore Crime Statistics – Category Wise

Here is a list of top categories of crime against property that happened in Lahore last year:

Position	Category	Total Crimes
1st	Bike Lifting	4,857
2nd	Burglary	2,826
3rd	Robbery	2,272
4th	Car Theft	549
5th	Other Vehicle Theft	351
6th	Motorcycle Snatching	315
7th	Dacoity	34
8th	Car Snatching	12
9th	Other Vehicle Snatching	9

Lahore Crime Rate Area and Category Wise

While Punjab Government introduced several initiatives last year in order to improve law & order situation in the city, especially, they brought in Dolphin Force all inspired by the Istanbul police force to combat street crime in the metropolis but the crime still remains abundant. Dolphin Force is supposedly most effective in capturing people that snatch and steal bikes, however, their effectiveness statistics are still to be seen as the numbers below are posting another kind of picture.

Here is the list of top crimes area-wise that happened in Lahore last year:

Division	Bike Lifting	Burglary	Robbery	Car Lifting	Other Vehicle Theft	Motorcycle Snatching	Dacoity
Saddar	1,016	786	413	131	56	81	4
Cantonment	959	720	406	92	56	54	12
City	1,037	357	442	101	94	89	6
Model Town	779	477	315	97	58	56	7
Iqbal Town	588	251	383	64	40	17	4
Civil Lines	478	235	313	64	47	18	1

Terror Attacks in Lahore

In 2017, there were 5 reported terrorist attacks in Lahore in which 58 people died while 250 people were reported as injured.

Lahore Crime News Today

Here are some of the latest Lahore crime news as reported by the Lahore Police Operations Center: