Crime overall throughout the city is minimal thanks to the great police force. Violent crime is actually rare. The only major crime for tourists to be worried about is pickpocketing...which is to be expected. Using common sense and taking precautions will keep you safe.

Each main line Métro station has a police station and uniformed and plain-clothes officers in the Métro and on the streets. According to the latest information:

• Pickpockets operate at certain Métro stations (Chatelet, Barbès, Belleville, and Stalingrad).
• Pickpockets also prefer busy areas: Barbès, Montmartre, Les Halles and the areas around the big department stores of the Opéra and Louvre.
• Barbès, Belleville, Stalingrad, Les Halles and, to a lesser extent, Masséna are areas well known for delinquency and are kept under surveilance.
• The Métro, especially the terminals, is less safe after 9pm during the week and after midnight at weekends.
• The Champs-Elysées and the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th arrondissements are considered safer areas.

Below is a table of important emergency numbers:
 

If you need to go to the hospital while in Paris, your best bet would be to go to the American Hospital in Paris, which is actually in Neuilly-sur-Seine. They accepts private American insurance (Blue Cross/Blue Shield). It is in a suburb right by Paris down past the Arc de Triomphe. You can use the Métro if you want. The address of the hospital is:

l'Hopital Américain de Paris
63 Boulevard Victor Hugo
Neuilly-sur-Seine 92202
tel. 46 41 25 25