Surrey crimes against persons up 23 per cent through August statistics release

Latest Surrey Police Service statistics, described as available through August, show 13 homicides from January through July 2026, compared with five during the same period in 2025 — an increase of 160 per cent.

The year-to-date figures cover January through July. Police recorded 102,626 calls for service in 2026, down three per cent from 106,105 in the same period last year. Crimes against persons rose 23 per cent, to 4,967 from 4,025.

Police recorded 50 shots-fired cases, 353 sex crimes, 2,387 assaults, 289 robberies, 138 extortions and seven arsons showing disregard for human life in 2026. The comparable 2025 figures were 45, 293, 1,987, 230, 29 and three. The report identifies the extortion cases as the “South Asian Series.”

Property crimes increased six per cent, to 12,931 from 12,148. The 2026 total included 364 business break-ins, 251 residential break-ins, 536 auto thefts, 1,849 thefts from autos, 110 possession-of-property-obtained-by-crime cases, 164 identity theft and other fraud cases, 84 arsons and 1,882 mischief cases. The respective 2025 totals were 263, 274, 616, 1,771, 94, 120, 111 and 1,768.

Surrey recorded six traffic fatalities during the period in 2026, compared with 13 in 2025, a reported 54-per-cent decline. Impaired-driving cases rose seven per cent to 1,223 from 1,143. The SPS recorded 3,633 mental-health-related files through July, up 44 per cent from 2,523, while missing-person files declined two per cent to 1,775 from 1,805.