MONDAY, MARCH 11, 1991
ACCORDING TO STATISTICS RELEASED TODAY (MONDAY), THE CRIME RATES, DEFINED AS THE NUMBER OF CASES PER 100,000 POPULATION,
393 RECORDED IN DECREASED BY 2.7 PER CENT TO 382 COMPARED WITH PRECEDING QUARTER.
THE
INCREASE OF 0.3
AN ON ROBBERY CASES, THE FOURTH QUARTER SAW PER CENT OVER THE PREVIOUS QUARTER WITH A TOTAL OF 1,986 INCIDENTS REPORTED.
OF THE ROBBERIES WHICH OCCURRED IN THE FOURTH GOLDSMITH AND WATCH SHOP ROBBERIES DECREASED то 18 CASES RECORDED IN THE PRECEDING QUARTER.
QUARTER, FROM 25
THE NUMBER OF ROBBERY CASES INVOLVING THE USE OF FIREARMS DECREASED TO 17 COMPARED WITH 23 IN THE THIRD QUARTER OF 1990.
ON PREVENTIVE CRIME. THERE WERE 1,024 CASES IN THE FOURTH QUARTER OF 1990 REPRESENTING A DECREASE OF 5.4 PER CENT COMPARED WITH THE PREVIOUS QUARTER.
THE TOTAL NUMBER OF BURGLARY CASES INCREASED 3,443 FROM 3,365 IN THE THIRD QUARTER OF 1990.
BY 78 CASES TO
PERSONS WERE
QUARTER.
OF
DURING THE LAST QUARTER, A TOTAL OF 11,043
THE ARRESTED FOR CRIME, 32 PERSONS FEWER THAN
PREVIOUS THE PERSONS ARRESTED IN THE QUARTER, 21 PER CENT WERE INVOLVED IN VIOLENT CRIME.
THE OVERALL DETECTION RATES FOR THE FOURTH QUARTER PER CENT REPRESENTING A SLIGHT INCREASE WHEN COMPARED WITH CENT IN THE THIRD QUARTER OF 1990.
WAS 44.6 43.4
PER
AS FOR VIOLENT CRIME AGAINST PERSON, THE DETECTION RATE FOR RAPE WAS 59.4 PER CENT, FOR INDECENT ASSAULTS 68.9 PER CENT, FOR WOUNDING 52.5 PER CENT, FOR SERIOUS ASSAULTS 58.1 PER CENT, AND FOR CRIMINAL INTIMIDATION 63.9 PER CENT.
THE DETECTION RATE FOR ROBBERY WITH FIREARMS WAS 35.3 PER CENT COMPARED WITH 26.1 PER CENT IN THE THIRD QUARTER OF 1990.
STATISTICS INDICATED THAT DETECTION RATES FOR BURGLARY CASES REMAINED RELATIVELY THE SAME. FOR BURGLARY WITHOUT BREAKING, THE
16 DETECTION RATE IN THE FOURTH QUARTER OF 1990 WAS
PER CENT WHILE THAT FOR BURGLARY WITH BREAKING WAS 5.6 PER CENT.
IN ORDER ΤΟ ADVISE RESIDENTS ΤΟ STEP UP THEIR SECURITY MEASURES AND TO AVOID BECOMING VICTIMS OF BURGLARY, A PILOT SCHEME HAS RECENTLY BEEN IMPLEMENTED BY THE POLICE.
A POLICE SPOKESMAN SAID THAT UNDER THE SCHEME, RESIDENTS OF BUILDINGS WHERE BURGLARY HAS BEEN REPORTED WILL BE ALERTED.
A WARNING NOTICE IN THE FORM OF A POSTCARD WILL BE DISTRIBUTED TO ALL OCCUPANTS OF THE BUILDING ADVISING THEM ON THE NEED TO LOCK UP PROPERLY AND CALL THE POLICE IF RESIDENTS FIND ANYTHING SUSPICIOUS.
/THE SCHEME