Number of crimes grows, crime detection index declines in
Armenia in first 11 months of 2008
15-12-2008 14:00:00 | Armenia | Politics
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 15, NOYAN TAPAN. The number of crimes
grew by 7.4% in Armenia in the first 11 months of 2008: 8,192
crimes were recorded in the indicated period.
The number of grave crimes grew by 15.3%, that of
especially grave crimes - by 6.9%, the head of the Main Criminal
Search Department of the RA Police Hovhannes Tamamian announced
at the December 12 press conference.
According to him, in the total number of crimes against
man, a growth was recorded in murders, attempted murders,
infliction of heavy damage to health, rapes and attempted rapes.
The number of crimes against property increased by 11.8%,
including a growth in burglaries (12.6%), robber attacks
(76.1%), and robberies (78.2%). In the total number of crimes
against property, there was a decline in the number of frauds
(by 10% or 37 cases) and crimes committed with the use of
fire-arms (16.3%), while the number of autothefts increased by
70 cases.
In the 11 months of 2008, 665 units of fire-arms were
either seized by the police or handed over voluntarily by
citizens, which, according to H. Tamamian, is the highest index
since 1993. The police representative said that the growth in
the number of crimes is mostly conditioned by the activation of
supervisory work done by the police heads with respect to
territorial sub-units, especially the registration carried out
by these sub-units in recent period.
A fall in the crime detection indices was recorded in
parallel with the growth of recorded crimes.