MIA: crime rate reduced, crime-solving rate increased from 35.5% to 49.8% in 2021

Police departments across Georgia increased their rate of solving criminal cases from 35.5 percent to 49.8 percent last year, Minister of Internal Affairs Vakhtang Gomelauri told chiefs of departments from across the country in a meeting on Friday.

Gomelauri summarised past year’s trends and spoke about challenges for police in the near future in the meeting, focusing on main indicators of the results of the work against crime and public safety issues.

[The increase in crime-solving rate] is a great achievement, and it is your and your departments’ merit. We have to continue this way in 2022, at least we have to maintain this rate and ideally increase it to the maximum, of course,” Gomelauri said.

The number of crimes also continued to decrease in the past year, the minister said while talking to the heads of police units about the work required to improve infrastructural capacities and preventive police measures in the regions.