Germany · All cities in Crime & Law
Europe · BerlinRobbery fell while recorded sexual offences rose
Berlin police recorded 298 fewer robberies in 2025. The combined category of rape, sexual coercion and sexual assault rose by 101 cases.
Timeline
- 2024: Police record 5,121 robberies and 2,013 offences in the combined sexual-offence category shown below.
- 2025: Robberies fall to 4,823 while the combined sexual-offence count rises to 2,114.
What the records show
Robbery fell 5.8 percent and the combined sexual-offence category rose 5.0 percent. The latter bundles several offences under the German police code 111000. Comparing it directly with a rape-only count in another jurisdiction would mix different legal categories.
Robbery · 20245,121
Robbery · 20254,823
Rape, sexual coercion and sexual assault · 20242,013
Rape, sexual coercion and sexual assault · 20252,114
Counts on a shared scale starting at zero. Source data
How to read the evidence
The figures cover offences known to police citywide, across public and private settings. The two categories moved in opposite directions. A street-specific account needs incident locations or a police series defined around public places.