In the year 2015 , crime dropped to a 36-year low for Hong Kong . There were 10,889 reported incidents of violent crimes in Hong Kong . Hong Kong had 22 homicides , 5,360 incidents of wounding and serious assaults , 223 robberies , 2,579 burglaries , and 70 rapes . In the 2000s , the number and rate of murders was the highest in 2002 . 2011 had the lowest rate and number of murders , at 17 ( 0.2 murders per 100,000 people ; lowest in the world ) . The homicide rate increased 129.6 % in 2013 from 2012 though this was due to the inclusion of 39 deaths from the Lamma Island ferry collision
Lamma Island ferry collision
2012 Lamma Island ferry collision
Crime in Hong Kong