CRIME RATE IS ON THE RISE
ARMENPRESS
Mar 19 2007
YEREVAN, MARCH 19, ARMENPRESS: Armenian police have reported today
a 13 percent rise in the number of committed crimes in the first two
months of this year, saying a total of 659 crimes and offences were
reported to them in January and February.
Chief of Yerevan police department Nerses Nazarian told a news
conference the growth was also due to an improved procedure of
registration of all reported crimes and offences.
He said apartment theft cases grew by 24 or 52 percent from a year
ago. In the majority of thefts the thieves penetrated into apartments
through windows.
He said the number of car thefts also rose by 28 percent while cases
of hooliganism and robberies declined 40 and 33 percent respectively.
He said police officers tracked down 18 cases of illegal arms
possession and also registered 19 crimes against foreigners. In these
first two months three murderers who were on the run, five thieves
and 9 people accused of fraud, were detected and arrested.
He said police in Yerevan exposed 15 criminal groups made up of 42
people. Six cases of premeditated murders were registered in Yerevan
in February-February, up from 5 such cases from a year ago. Four of
these cases were solved.