Richmond Police Department
Crime Report
Council Report January 2025
Mayor Martinez, Council and Community,
This report will provide you with the year-end data for 2024.
In reviewing the data, you will find that violent crime increased by 7% in 2024 but property crime decreased by 3% resulting in an overall decrease in crime of .25%.
The following tables provide the numbers of incidents related to part 1 crimes. It should be noted that Part 1 crimes are serious felony crimes. These tables and data do not capture misdemeanor crimes, infractions or quality of life issues.
2024 Highlights:
Police department staff generated 28,193 reports.
2,084 arrests made – 1,103 felony arrests and 955 misdemeanor arrests. 198 DUI arrests
258 firearms recovered
Parking Enforcement Unit towed 1938 vehicles and red tagged 2523 vehicles 11 fatal collisions which resulted in 12 deaths
Nine (9) Human Trafficking Special Operations
46 Assaults with a firearm investigations
In 2024 there were 11 homicides. This is three more homicides than we had in 2023 but still one of the lowest numbers on record (there was one other year with 11 homicides). Of the 11 homicides, all but 3 have been solved. We continue to investigate and follow leads in the three open cases.
Communications Center
Our Communications Center received a total of 236,161 calls over the past year.
Of those calls, 86,889 were received through 911 and 149,272 were received on business lines.
Richmond Fire Department accounted for 19,230 calls and of those fire calls, Emergency Medical Dispatching (EMD) was initiated and/or completed for 13,599.
The average ring time (amount a caller has to wait while the phone is ringing) was 8 seconds.
Administration
The good news is that we were able to hire more staff in 2024 than we loss leaving us with an overall net gain.
21 police officers hired in 2024
13 professional staff members hired
5 promotions
13 police officer separations
12 professional staff separations
The above information is just a snapshot of the work done in the police department.
Additional statistical data can be found on our website – richmondpd.net
In Service,
Bisa French
Chief of Police
Richmond Police Department