PEOPLE BECOME VICTIMS IN PUBLIC TRANQUILITY
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[07:41 pm] 11 September, 2006
Today Ararat Mahtesyan, RA deputy chief of the Police, was in the
Parliament. Though the deputies aroused the question of the deepening
criminal situation in the republic, none of them asked Mr. Mahtesyan
about it.
Instead of the deputies, the journalists tried to ask Ararat
Mahtesyan’s opinion on the recent tendencies of the existing
crime-generating situation.
It turns out that Mr. Mahtesyan’s opinion is based on the impression
of foreign "tourists" instead of real numbers or existing picture
but. "I must confess that today international organizations, observers,
mediators and foreigners consider Armenia to be a country of public
tranquility."
Asked whether he can say the same words to the relatives of Karine
Sargsyan, who became innocent victim during Zatikyan’s murder or
Siranoush, killed during Givoyev’s murder, Mr. Mahtesyan answered, "I
don’t think we face crime-generating situation in Armenia today. Just
on the contrary, I assume that the above-mentioned situation is under
control," says Ararat Mahtesyan.
He thinks the situation is not appalling. The police are concerned with
it and are working to reveal the recent murders "though they counter
some specific features and difficulties connected with those crimes."
Mr. Mahtesyan claims there are doubtful questions in statistic data
"but they are very little. Surely, there is certain increase of
murders but these numbers are nothing."
Asked the question how the police control the situation in the
republic in his opinion when a crime was committed by a kidnapped car
only a few meters away from the sentry post, Mr. Mahtesyan answered,
"It is conditioned by the lack of legislative order.
Suppose there are 100 and more kidnapped cars how can policemen know
of them? Should they know the numbers of all cars by heart? The car
may pass by a policeman and he may know nothing of it unless the
driver breaches traffic rules," says Mr. Mahtesyan and enumerates
all the technical means required to reveal the kidnapped cars. But
unfortunately they are too expensive.