Crime down in Azerbaijan
BAKU – Crime in Azerbaijan has decreased significantly this year, the Prosecutor General told law enforcement agencies’ meeting in Baku Friday.
Mr. Zakir Garalov said 110 organized crime groups had been detained. 87.3 percent of 11,375 crimes have been disclosed. There have been no cases of hostage-taking.
According to Garalov, in the first half of 2010, compared with the corresponding period of last year, the number of kidnappings decreased by 42.9 percent, while that of rapes – 2.6-fold, robberies by 26.3 percent, and hooliganism by 3.2 percent.
The number of crimes committed against foreign citizens considerably decreased as well.
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