NUMBER OF CRIMES GROWS, CRIME DETECTION INDEX DECLINES IN ARMENIA IN FIRST 11 MONTHS OF 2008
Noyan Tapan
Dec 15, 2008
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.