CRIME RATE TENDS TO GROW
Lusine Vasilyan

"Radiolur"
04.11.2009 14:50

Head of the Public Relations and Information Department of RA Police
Sayat Shirinyan summed up the crime rate in the republic over the nine
months of 2009. The data shows that the crime rate tends to increase.

The total number of crimes increased 57% as compared to the same period
in 2008. Sayat Shirinyan says the growth in unprecedented. "The growth
is connected with the refusal from the concealing of the crimes,"
he explained.

Among other reasons the Head of the Public Relations and Information
Department of RA Police pointed to the fact that 2 585 crimes committed
in the previous years were revealed and registered during the first
nine months of 2009.

According to police spokesman Sayat Shirinyan, within nine months of
2009, 10,719 crime cases were registered in Armenia (the index for
the same period of 2008 was 6,825). Shirinyan stressed that along
with the rise in crimes (as compared to the previous year) the crime
detection rate has also increased by nine percent.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress