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Aug 15, 2012 News
The Police’s A Division (Georgetown/East Bank Demerara) has overtaken the interior and East Coast Demerara divisions as the murder capital of Guyana so far this year.
Figures released by the Guyana Police Force revealed that A Division has recorded 23 out of the total 75 murders committed at the end of July.
This year’s total murder figure is around six percent less than for the same period last year.
In 2011, at the end of July, A Division had recorded 20 murders.
This year for the same period, the East Coast of Demerara has recorded 17 murders, one more than the interior division which has 16, down from 23 last year.
Berbice, with 10 murders, comes next, followed by West Demerara with seven. Essequibo remains the safest police division in terms of murders with two so far.
Of the 75 murders, 36 were of the disorderly type, four were committed during armed robberies, 15 were domestic related and four execution type. The other 16 murders are so far undetermined.
An overall decrease of two percent in serious crimes has been recorded at the end of July this year in comparison to last year, the police said.
The total number of reports of serious crimes made by July 31 this year was 2,201 compared to 2,257 at the end of July last year.
Some of the offences monitored are murder, robbery under arms, robbery with violence, larceny from the person, break and enter and larceny, burglary, rape and kidnapping.
Robbery under arms has increased by 22% in July 2012, with 597 reports compared to 489 for the same period in 2011.
According to the police yesterday, the statistics indicate an increase of 14% in the number of armed robberies involving the use of firearms, and a 36% increase in armed robberies where instruments other than firearms were used by the perpetrators.
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