MIA: crime rate reduced, crime-solving rate increased from 35.5% to 49.8% in 2021
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. Photo: Georgian interior ministry.
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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.
Police arrested six individuals in Tbilisi earlier on Thursday with charges of illegal deprivation of liberty, financial extortion, unlawful possession of firearms and ammunition, and failure to report a crime.
Georgian law enforcers have arrested a 35-year-old man in the Black Sea coastline city of Batumi for premeditated murders of two people in eastern Georgia’s Kakheti province earlier this month.
Georgian police have arrested four foreign citizens on Thursday in Tbilisi, with the individuals charged for selling drugs online.
Police in western Georgia’s Samegrelo region arrested three individuals, including two charged with drug dealing, the Ministry of Internal Affairs said on Tuesday.
The Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs has launched an investigation against an individual who allegedly called for smashing the windows of the first floor of the Government Administration building located in central Tbilisi via social media on Tuesday.