CRIME DETECTION RATE IN ARMENIA’S PENITENTIARIES HAS INCREASED
PanARMENIAN.Net
21.10.2009 20:18 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ On October 20, Heads of penitentiary institutions
met in Justice Ministry’s penitentiary department to conduct their
working discussion. Participants summed up the results of their
activities for the past 9 months.
They attached special importance to the role of operation service
which helped reveal and prevent crimes committed by inmates.
Over the past months of 2009, penitentiary services detected 57 crimes,
instead of the 31 registered for the same period of last year.
As regards crimes committed beyond penitentiaries, their number
makes up 33 compared to the 11 registered last year. Searches helped
confiscate prohibited items whose number reached 3035 in 2008. In
comparison with last year, the number of detected crimes has increased
twice, RA Justice Ministry’s press service reports.