Time in Tbilisi: March 29, 2024 09:18
The Interior Ministry has presented its annual report detailing the most common crimes in Georgia and other statistics.
According to statistics, a total of 35,997 crimes were reported in the country during 2016. Of these, 20,661 or 57.4 percent have been solved.
What were the most common crimes?
In 2016, the five most commonly reported crimes in Georgia were:
Where were the most crimes reported?
In 2016, most of the reported crimes were committed in the capital of Tbilisi. The distribution was as the following:
Three crimes decreasing in frequency were:
Three increasing in frequency were:
Deputy Interior Minister Shalva Khutsishvili said that the ministry is implementing the European standard for reporting crime and will release the statistics for Georgia every spring.
Georgian Minister of Internal Affairs Giorgi Mgebrishvili met with European Union (EU) Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn in Brussels today to discuss the recent decision to cancel visa-requirements for Georgians.
Official statistics released today showed crimes against property was the most commonly reported crime in Georgia in 2015, followed by drug-related offences and crimes against another person’s health.
The Chief Prosecutor's Office of Georgia has presented its annual report detailing the most common crimes in Georgia and other statistics.
Georgia has been ranked the third safest country in the world. Numbeo.com, the world’s largest database of user contributed data, surveyed 118 countries, and ranked South Korea, Singapore and Georgia as the top three safest nations.
Georgia has officially announced the ratification of the Council of Europe’s Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (the Istanbul Convention).
Georgia’s newly appointed Interior Minister Giorgi Gakhartia has kept his promise and the ministry has released detailed crime statistics that the body had refused to publish in the previous two years.
Crimes against property are the most commonly reported crime in Georgia, followed by violent crimes and drug-related offences, reveal statistics released today by official sources.
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.
The Georgian Deputy Interior Minister Natia Mezvrishvili has stated that 53 individuals were detained for committing violent crimes in 2018 so far.
A total of 33,054 crimes were reported in January-July of 2018 in Georgia, which is a 55.81 per cent increase compared to the same period in 2017, reveal data from Georgia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs has detained 10 members of a criminal group responsible for kidnapping a Georgian citizen in Tbilisi.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs has detained 10 members of a criminal group responsible for kidnapping a Georgian citizen in Tbilisi.
In the newest rankings by Global Finance Georgia takes 49th place among 128 countries with a safety index score of 9.68. With this result, Georgia is the safest country in the region.
Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze spoke in parliament about the criminal situation in the country earlier today – this was demanded of him by the opposition. For the first time in the history of the Georgian parliament, the opposition MPs have the right to summon top officials to parliament and ask them questions on specific issues.
The Tax Monitoring Department of the Georgian Revenue Service have found goods worth 23,640 lari ($8,580.76/€7,689.31) falsely marked with the Massimo Dutti brand.
5,334 crimes were registered in Georgia in January 2020, which is 400 cases fewer compared to the same period of the last year. 1,314 of the cases have been resolved, the Georgian Interior Ministry told IPN news agency.
Georgian police have detained a 28-year-old man who set the former President Mikheil Saakashvili library in Tbilisi on fire yesterday.
The number of crimes registered between January and March of 2020 has decreased by more than 10 per per cent compared to the same period of the last year.
Crimes against property are the most commonly reported crime in Georgia, reveal statistics released today by official sources. In total 3,493 crimes were registered in Georgia in April 2020, which is 1.5 per cent less compared to the same month of the last year, says the National Statistics Office of Georgia.