Hong Kong's crime situation continues to improve with a drop of 6.1 percent in the number of crimes in the first half of 2005, Secretary for Security of Hong Kong government, Ambrose S K Lee, said Saturday.

"We have witnessed the drop of offences including robbery, burglary, thefts, deception and serious drug offences, and there was also a drop of 0.7 percent in violent crime," Lee said after the Fight Crime Committee meeting, which held Saturday to review the crime situation in Hong Kong.

Regarding juvenile offenders, Lee said, "We have also witnessed a drop".

As for crimes committed by visitors, the number of visitors arrested for criminal offences also dropped despite of the fact that the number of visitors to Hong Kong went up during the Jan.-June period, according to Lee.

Source: Xinhua