The Algarve's court prosecutors have listed various crimes committed in the Algarve during the first quarter of 2016, one in four was for drunk driving.
Second on the list was driving without a license, third was violence, fourth was theft and burglary and the fifth was disobeying an office of the law.
In total, these five types of crime represent half of all the offenses recorded in the Algarve.
As for the areas in which suspected crimes were registered, Faro council area accounted for 20%, Portimão 19%, Albufeira 15% and Loulé 15% but when it came to people actually being charged, Albufeira came in first with 23%.
During the first quarter the region’s courts processed about two thousand trial hearings with 700 judgements being handed out of which 19% were acquittals.
