16/11/2018 17:10
Crime rate drastically grows in Armenia: NA vice chairman
The crime rate in Armenia grew as compared with the same span of the year. NA vice spokesperson Arpine Hovhannisian wrote in her Facebook page that from January 2018 till August the number of committed crimes in Armenia reached 14, 205 while last year 12,484 were registered in the same period. In 2016 12,294 crimes were registered.
“It is not necessary to be a specialist to understand that the number of crimes has drastically increased in Armenia while this is the statistics before the declared amnesty,” she wrote, adding that the scaring statistics does not seem to worry the police which rejected the information about the growth of crime rate in the country in a response to a paper’s question.
She also wrote that in January-September 2018 the number of crimes has already reached 16,227.