Gardaí have reported a decrease in burglaries and robberies in the first quarter (Q1) of 2025, when compared to the same period last year.

According to provisional crime statistics, the level of property crime has decreased across all crime types in Q1 2025.

Gardaí said that aggravated burglaries were down by 29% and residential burglaries dropped by 17% in the period.

The provisional data shows that March 2025 had the lowest level of recorded residential burglary since 2021.

During Q1 2025, there was an average of approximately 15 residential burglaries per day across the 26 counties, or less than 1 residential burglary per day per county.

In the 10 years of Operation Thor, recorded residential burglaries during the winter phase (October – March) have dropped by 75%.

Operation Thor actively targets organised crime gangs and repeat offenders through co-ordinated crime prevention and enforcement activity based on intelligence and the latest burglary trends.

The data shows that robbery was down by 25%, with robbery from a person decreasing by 27% and a 3% fall in the theft of vehicles.

Thefts from vehicles were down 32% when compared to Q1 2024, theft from a person were back by 30% and thefts from shops fell by 6%.

Nationally, crimes against the person were down 5%. The largest decreases were reported in the southern region (17%).

Gardaí said that murder and human trafficking have increased although based on low numbers of 10 incidents each.

Nationally, the number of sexual offences overall has remained level to Q1 2024.

An Garda Síochána attended over 15,300 domestic abuse incidents in Q1 2025, similar to the same period last year.

The data shows that reported fraud or economic crime showed a 61% increase compared to Q1 2024.

There was a 107% rise in reports of bogus tradesman fraud, which gardaí said is "showing an increasing trend".

Gardaí said that there was likely to be an increase in volume for crime statistics under the fraud, deception and related offences category as the high volume of referrals are processed.

During Q1 2025, reported criminal damage was down by 18%, arson was up 17%, public order offences were up 7% and trespass offences were down 5%.

Gardaí said that March 2025 marked the fourth month whereby criminal damage and public order offences dropped below the three-year average.

Drugs offences and offensive weapons offences were at similar levels with Q1 2024.

During Q1 2025, fatal and serious road traffic collisions decreased by 40%, with fatal collisions down 22%.

In the first three months of the year, there were over 11,750 road traffic collisions reported to An Garda Síochána.

While there was an overall reduction of 7% in road traffic collisions, this is still 130 collisions every day.

Up to March 31, 2025, gardaí and GoSafe, have issued approximately 31,800 fixed charge notices (FCN) for speeding offences.

Gardaí issued a further 39,000 FCNs, including for the use of mobile phones while driving (6,100); provisional/novice drivers (4,400) and driving without reasonable consideration (1,500).