The Chief Constable’s annual report shows crime has risen in the island.

Gary Robert’s report has been published as part of the Tynwald order paper for October 20.

The overall increase in recorded crime was 4.9%, whilst the detection rate was 49% (the same as two years ago, but down 2% on the year before).

Mr Roberts said the Isle of Man is ’still the safest jurisdiction in the British Isles, despite an increase in recorded crime’.

He added: ’Our detection rate for crime is still the highest in the British Isles. The biggest threat to the safety that we all enjoy lies in the increasingly sophisticated and violent trade in Class A drugs, usually from Liverpool.

’The extra 200 or so offences that were recorded during the year were made up of extra drugs offences detected by the police, extra offences of violence (often directly associated with the enforcement of drugs debts), and fraud and money laundering offences, some of which can again be linked to the local drugs trade.’

We will have a full report on Mr Robert’s annual report in Tuesday’s Isle of Man Examiner.