The Summerland RCMP detachment saw a small decrease in the number of calls for service in 2024, compared with the previous year.
The quarterly policing statistics for the fourth quarter of 2024 also included the full-year policing statistics.
Throughout the year, police received 2,553 calls for service, a four per cent decline from the 2,666 calls for service received throughout 2023.
Violent crime numbers dropped by 23 per cent, with 120 incidents reported, down from 156.
Categories under violent crime include assault, sex offences, uttering threats and intimate partner violence.
Of the assaults reported, 65 per cent were between parties known to each other. The report also added that 18 per cent of assaults involved intimate partner violence.
Property crime figures declined by 11 per cent, with 346 incidents, down from 390 in 2023.
Decreases were noted in most areas. However, the number of bicycle thefts rose from three in 2023 to seven in 2024. Shoplifting incidents rose from eight in 2023 to 10 in 2025, Fraud incidents increased from 58 in 2023 to 29 in 2024.
In the fourth quarter of the year, business and residential break and enters both showed increases.
Police say an inter-jurisdictional offender was suspected of being involved in the majority of reported business break-and-enters.
The business break and enters included two break-ins at the Summerland Landfill in the fourth quarter of the year.
Outdoor storage lots were targeted, making up 38 per cent of all business break and enters. Vehicles were targeted in two of these types of files, police say.
The most common method of entry was a cut fence, in 63 per cent of business break and enters, police say.
