173 years since the foundation

State Police, over 1 million interventions and 14.4 tonnes of drugs seized in 2024

These are just some of the numbers compiled by the magazine PoliziaModerna, a detailed balance sheet recounting a year's activity of the 97,931 police officers on duty, providing security in the Italian provinces.

by Redaction Rome

10 April 2025

PER LE CELEBRAZIONI PER IL 173° ANNIVERSARIO DELLA FONDAZIONE DELLA POLIZIA E' STATA DEPOSTA UNA CORONA DI FIORI DINANZI LA STELE IN ONORE DEI CADUTI AL CASTELLO MANIACE A ORTIGIA, 10 APRILE 2025.
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Assets worth EUR 714 million were subtracted from financial crime. In addition, four tonnes of drugs were also seized. In 39 seizures, following requests for asset prevention measures, a further 31.5 million euro were blocked and in 56 confiscations, 76 million were seized. In addition, mafia organisations have been reached by ablatory measures for more than 90 million euro. These are just some of the numbers compiled by the official magazine PoliziaModerna on the occasion of the 173rd anniversary celebration of the State Police. A detailed balance sheet recounting one year of activity, 2024, of the 97,931 police officers on duty, (80,625 men and 17,306 women) to guarantee security in the Italian provinces.

Four million people checked

Approximately 20,000 police officers on duty at the Volanti, Crime Prevention Units and Operational Units of First Intervention (Uopi) patrolled the territory. The controls on the territory involved approximately four million people, 47,293 reported and 8,602 arrested. The Operations Rooms of the Italian Police Headquarters handled 4,351,509 calls, for a total of 1,244,664 interventions carried out by the crews on duty with cars and motorbikes.

The mobile teams

The activities carried out by the mobile squads and investigative sections of the Central Operations Service of the State Police led to the arrest of 1,542 people in 111 operations, the capture of 35 fugitives and, as mentioned, the seizure of organised crime assets worth EUR 714 million and four tonnes of drugs.

Harassment up by 40 per cent

In 2024, thanks to the support provided by the Central Anti-Crime Service to the Anti-Crime Divisions of the Police Headquarters, the issuance by the Questors of personal prevention measures increased by 40% for Daspo and by 30% for cautioning for persecutory acts. Special surveillance proposals forwarded by the Questors to the Courts increased by 29%.

Anti-terrorist repatriations

Police officers of the Digos engaged in preventing and combating terrorism arrested 23 people and repatriated 82 others because they were considered dangerous to state security. With regard to the fight against domestic terrorism, 15 people were arrested and 506 reported, 36 right-wing and left-wing extremists were arrested. The Digos fan squads, on the other hand, arrested 115 supporters and reported 1,721 individuals last year.

Immigrazione

On the immigration and border police front, there was a 15% increase in the production of residence permits, of which 180,000 were for temporary protection for those displaced by the conflict in Ukraine. There were 25,383 expulsion and removal orders from the national territory against foreigners and EU citizens, and 5,541 foreigners and EU citizens were repatriated. Border Police officers arrested 2,180 people, 161 of whom were arrested for aiding and abetting illegal immigration and turned back another 8,904.

Security at 12,000 events

In the management of public order, in a year in which Italy hosted the G7 summit and with the continuation of the immigration emergency, the almost 5,000 police officers employed found themselves managing security during 12,302 demonstrations, in 302 of which clashes and violence occurred, leading to the arrest of 16 people and the prosecution of 2,069 others. During the demonstrations there was no lack of support from the forensic police, whose operators carried out 10,188 photo/video services. In addition to their deployment during public order, the Forensic Police carried out 23,236 crime scene inspections, over 10,000 forensic genetic analyses and almost 19,000 analyses on firearms, blanks, ammunition, ballistics and gunshot residues. The Unsolved Crimes Unit (Udi) also re-examined some unsolved crimes of the past and carried out subsequent technical and scientific investigations on eight murder cases.

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