This Year, Murder Cases Have Increased: Deputy Police Chief Reports Data

During the first nine months of 2021, the total number of registered crimes in the Republic has increased by 6.1 percent. A total of 20,863 criminal cases have been registered. This was announced by Deputy Police Chief Ara Fidanyan at a meeting of the National Assembly's permanent committees.

According to him, this increase is primarily due to a rise in cases of fraud, theft, and violations of traffic regulations.

“Of the 20,863 registered cases, the majority falls under minor and medium severity crimes, which are considered to pose lesser public danger and account for 84 percent of the total registered crimes. By specific types of offenses, there has been an increase in murder cases — 39-41, sexual offenses, theft, robbery, fraud, computer-related thefts, vehicle thefts, and violations of traffic rules,” noted the Deputy Police Chief.

Ara Fidanyan added that at the same time, there has been a decrease in intentional health harm, residential theft, robbery, embezzlement, or misappropriation, and hooliganism.

During this period, there are currently 29,129 criminal cases under investigation, of which 57.8 percent involve individuals identified as defendants.