YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 8, NOYAN TAPAN. In the first 9 months of 2005, the percentage of women in the number of those subjected to criminal liability increased to 8.3% against 7.7% in the same period of 2004. Announcing it at the November 7 press conference, Deputy Chief of RA Police Major-General Hovhannes Hunanian at the same time noted that the number of women who committed crimes during the indicated period declined by 4.5% - from 379 to 362. It was announced that over the last two years, police succeeded in preventing certain negative trends regarding juvenile delinquency and stabilizing the situation. Thus, there was some decline both in the number of minors subjected to criminal liability (from 295 to 263) and the number of juvenile crimes (from 427 to 371) 461 crimes connected to narcotic drugs were discovered in the first 9 months of 2005 against 339 crimes in the same period of 2004, with the increase making 122 cases or 36%. 275 cases or 59.6% of all the discovered cases were those of drug trafficking, whose number decreased by 35 on the same months of last year (310 such crimes). 213 crimes against economic activity were revealed in the indicated period (213 crimes over the first 9 months of 2004). According to H. Hunanian, they attach special importance to revealing cases of state or public property embezzlement. 57 such crimes were disclosed in the 9 months of 2005, which is more by 9.6% than during the same period of 2004 (52).

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