The number of reported crimes in Budapest dropped by 9.8% in 2018 to 56.739 from 62.870 in the previous year, according to an annual report submitted to the Budapest Assembly. The assembly approved the report by the Budapest Police headquarters in a unanimous vote. Commenting on the data, Tamás Terdik, the chief of Budapest police, noted that the number of crimes committed in Budapest in 2018 was the lowest in the past nine years.