Overview
- Officials said average daily intentional homicides fell from 3.13 to 2.48 between September 2024 and December 2025.
- High-impact crimes showed a slight year-over-year dip in 2025, down 0.3% to a 20.5 daily average.
- From October 1, 2024 to January 15, 2026, authorities reported 3,571 detentions for high-impact crimes in Veracruz.
- Over the same period, security forces seized 1,041 firearms and more than 9,700 kilograms of drugs.
- The anti-extortion strategy yielded 49 arrests and the disabling of 4,621 phone lines, with recent cases involving three municipal police officers and a local security director accused of illicit demands.