The Town Hall highlights that the town has reversed the upward trend in crime seen in the years leading up to November 2023. Official figures from the Ministry of the Interior, as reported by the council, show that between January and September 2022, criminal offences rose by 16 per cent compared with the same period in 2021, rising from 3,322 to 3,855. A year later, between January and September 2023, they rose by a further 17 per cent, reaching 4,510 offences. In contrast to this trend, the figures for January to September 2025 show 4,049 offences, 10 per cent fewer than the 4,500 recorded in the same period of 2024.

 

In light of these figures, the councillor for the Local Police, Juan Carlos Cuevas Dawson (Vox), believes that this change “is neither a coincidence nor something that happens overnight”. “We have come through a period of several years in which crime was rising significantly, and reversing such a trend requires organisation, planning and a great deal of hard work. That is exactly what we are doing at the Local Police”, he points out.

The figures for last August alone give an indication of the scale of this daily activity. The Local Police dealt with 3,119 cases recorded via COTA —incidents and calls handled from headquarters—, made 18 arrests, processed 133 cases and carried out police operations involving 1,759 vehicles and 1,023 people.

During August, 1,347 enforcement actions were carried out under the General Traffic Regulations, 84 relating to compliance with municipal by-laws and 79 under the Public Safety Protection Act. In addition to these, there were 67 reports resulting from interventions, as well as 13 actions relating to town planning and ten concerning business premises.

 

Cuevas points out that “when we talk about security, we are not just talking about an arrest that might be reported in the media. There are thousands of operations, checks, identity checks, investigations and interventions that form part of our officers’ work and which enable us to maintain a presence on the streets and take action when necessary”.

Furthermore, the councillor also notes that the figures for 2025 do not merely reflect an overall reduction of 10 per cent. Between January and September, conventional crime also fell by 7.4 per cent, robberies involving violence and intimidation by 25.4 per cent, burglaries by 21.6 per cent and residential burglaries by 23.3 per cent.

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“There is still work to be done and we will never settle. But to those who wish to promote the idea that Mijas used to be safer, the figures speak for themselves: between 2021 and 2023, crime rates were rising, and subsequently that trend reversed. There is no secret to it: organisation, hard work and the daily commitment of our police officers”, he stated.

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