The overall crime rate in White Rock dropped in 2011, according to a year-to-year comparison just released by the RCMP.
The statistics show police received nearly 7,000 calls for service in the seaside community last year with Criminal Code offences making up 1203 of them.
That is a drop of 16 per cent from the previous year.
There were 116 violent crimes, a category that includes robberies, assaults, and domestic violence incidents.
That represents a 44 per cent drop from the 206 violent incidents reported in 2010.
Overall, property crime numbers were down, with 21 per cent fewer business break and enters, 22 per cent fewer vehicle thefts and 38 per cent fewer thefts from motor vehicles.
However, residential break and enters rose from 75 in 2010 to 111 in 211, an increase of 48 per cent.
The number of misdialed 911 calls increased 36 per cent last year, with RCMP in White Rock called to 1420 calls to the emergency number that were either dialed in error or accidentally through so-called "pocket dials" of cell phones.
There were 1048 such incidents in 2010.
