Law enforcement solved over 60% of crimes in 2022 – Interior Ministry
Georgian law enforcement agencies solved 33,805 out of 54,435 crime cases throughout 2022, marking a 62.1 percent solution rate. Photo: Interior Ministry
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Georgian law enforcement agencies solved 33,805 out of 54,435 crime cases throughout 2022, marking a 62.1 percent solution rate, new figures released by the Interior Ministry on Thursday show.
The statistical update said the number of registered crimes had decreased by 3.39 percent from the previous year.
It also noted most crimes committed last year in the country were thefts, with 8,477 out of 15,862 cases resolved.
From other categories of crime, the Ministry said 212 out of 1,470 cases involving death had been solved, with 42 involving premeditated murder and 32 murder committed under aggravating circumstances.
Law enforcement agencies also recorded 11,070 cases of suicide, with 21 solved.
In other figures, 176 cases involving rape were identified and 123 of them resolved, while 5,170 out of 5,471 drug-related cases were also successfully closed.
The institutions also identified 68 and solved 46 cases involving violations related to Georgia’s Russian-occupied territories throughout the year.
Georgian law enforcement agencies improved their crime-solving rate from 35.5 percent to 50 percent in 2021, Interior Minister Vakhtang Gomelauri told the Georgian Parliament on Thursday as he summed up the Ministry's activities at the lawmaking body.
In order to assess the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on crime rates in Georgia, non-governmental organisation the Institute for Development of Freedom of Information (IDFI) analysed the crime statistics of 2020 registered by the Interior Ministry throughout the country.
Crimes against property are the most commonly reported crime in Georgia, followed by violent and transport crimes, reveal statistics released today by official sources. In the first quarter of 2018 a total of 3,660 people were victims of crime – 3,524 were Georgian citizens, 121 were foreigners.
Georgian deputy interior minister Aleksandre Darakhvelidze, on Wednesday, highlighted the ministry’s “role and responsibility” of ensuring equality in Georgia at the opening event of the Council of Europe’s campaign ‘I choose equality’ within the framework of the project Promoting the Effective Protection of Equality and Non-Discrimination in Georgia.
The Georgian Interior Ministry on Wednesday reported a 2023 decrease in the overall crime rate compared to the previous year.
The number of crimes reported across Georgia is decreasing, the Ministry of Internal Affairs said in its latest update of the figures, adding 64.87 percent of registered crimes had been solved by investigative agencies in 2023.