5,334 crimes registered in Georgia in January
The Georgian Interior Ministry says that fewer crimes were registered in January 2020 compared to the same period of 2019. Photo: Interior Ministry press office.
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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.
Of the crimes registered:
- 1,014 were violent or sexual offences, with 481 of these cases involving domestic violence. 262 of these cases have been solved.
- 299 cases involved homicide cases, 13 of the cases have been solved.
- 436 were vehicle crimes, including the violation of traffic rules (434).
- 313 involved crimes against human rights and freedoms. Three of the cases were concerned with trafficking.
- 1,998 were property crimes, of which 1,548 cases were robbery.
- 384 were drug crimes, and 287 were resolved.
- 180 were cyber crimes, with 48 white-collar crimes and one terrorism-related case.
Georgian and Ukrainian state security agencies have prevented the premediated murder of two individuals in Georgia by car bomb.
Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia is creating a registry of persons convicted of sex crimes, the ministry reports today.
The Georgian Interior Ministry reports that 116 individuals were charged in 2018 for various offences committed against minors.
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.
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.
A person who received 12,800 GEL ($4,011/€3,679) through the fraud of 11 people has been sentenced to six years in prison.
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.
A man was shot in his car in Gldani district of Tbilisi earlier today. Police say it was a premeditated murder and the offender, allegedly, was in illegal possession of firearms.
Georgian officials have expressed solidarity with Austria in the aftermath of a deadly terrorist attack in the capital Vienna last night that killed at least four people and injured 17.