The easternmost district is the safest in Zagreb.
On the second session of Zagreb City Assembly, Zagreb Police Administration Deputy Chief Dubravko Teur presented the Report on the Indicators of Public Safety for 2016, Zagreb.info reports on September 2, 2017.
The district of Sesvete and its 90,000 inhabitants is the safest, statistics show.
Although the police station in Sesvete is small and it needs more officers, the figures show that it does a great job with keeping its inhabitants safe.
According to the data, the number of all crimes committed in Sesvete area in the previous year was 794, and in 2015 there were 901, which means that there was a 12% decrease, with an 8.4% increase in the number of resolved cases (43.5% in 2015, in contrast to 51.9% in 2016).
The most problematic parts of the city are Trešnjevka and Novi Zagreb. There were 2,294 criminal offences in Trešnjevka, and in 2,008 in Novi Zagreb, but the figures are lower than in 2015.
Zagreb County
As far as Zagreb County is concerned, Zelina is the safest, with only 170 offences, but this actually represents a 7.6% increase compared to the previous year.
As for traffic safety, the lowest number of accidents occurred in the Medveščak police station area (399), followed by Sesvete (484). In almost all parts of the city, there is a decrease in the number of traffic accidents, but they were more serious and, unfortunately, more people died in them.
The lowest number of traffic accidents in the County occurred in Vrbovec, 146, which represents a 31.5% decrease when compared to 2015.
All in all, there were 16,157 criminal offences, 7,963 traffic accidents and 20,508 crimes against public order, which is also the only area where a 4.7% increase was recorded. Crime rates were down by 0.3%, 3.3% more cases were solved, and there was a 4.7% decrease in the number of traffic accidents.