The number of crimes dropped 4.2% in Slovenia in the first half of 2008 and the share of resolved crimes was up almost three percentage points year-on-year, criminal police chief Aleksander Jevsek said on Monday. The police registered 44,500 crimes and 21,274 were resolved, Jevsek said.
Jevsek pointed out at the press conference today that the the number of resolved crimes rose from 44.9% to 47.8% in the first half on 2008.
Crimes against physical integrity were down 11% compared to the same period last year. The number of homicides went from 15 to eight, and all of them were resolved, Jevsek said.
The number of serious injuries and attempted murders went up, but all of these criminal acts were resolved. There were also fewer sexual crimes.
Crimes against property were down 10.1%, while there was also a drop in the number of robberies and car thefts (52%), arsons (24%), and braking and entering into residences. Jevsek attributes the latter to greater police presence.
The level of juvenile crime stayed roughly the same as in the first half of 2007, while the police recorded a 245.7% rise in computer crime.
According to Jevsek, drug abuse crimes rose by 28.5%.
There were 19.5% more crimes of illegal production and traffic of explosives. In fighting terrorism, the police had no other work than the exchange of information with foreign security bodies, Jevsek explained, adding that the number of forensic researches also increased.
The police put 16 million queries to the Schengen Information System in the first half of 2008, and 107 persons were captured based on the information, 4,276 were denied entry into the country, and 40 missing persons were found, Jevsek explained.
Compared to the first half of last year, the number of people who died in car crashes went from 174 to 123, but one in every three responsible for fatal crashes was driving under the influence of alcohol.
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