Armenia’s crime rate down in 2004, official says

Armenia’s crime rate down in 2004, official says

Noyan Tapan news agency
7 Mar 05

Yerevan, 7 March: The crime rate continued to decline in Armenia in
2004, the first deputy head of the Armenian Police, Ararat Makhtesyan,
told a press conference on 5 March.

While 31.4 crimes were committed per 10,000 people in 2004, this
figure stood at 34.5 crimes per 10,000 people in 2003, he said.

Makhtesyan drew parallels between Armenia and Russia and Ukraine and
said that these countries’ crime rates were 199.4 and 106.1 per 10,000
people respectively.

In 2004, 10,083 crimes were registered in Armenia against 11,073 in
2003. Of these, 1.7 per cent were very grave crimes and 34.6 per cent
were grave crimes, he said.