Daily Monitor
Tuesday April 20 2021
Witnesses point at a spot on a car that was shot by armed thugs who attacked a shop in Nansana-Ganda, Wakiso District in January. Five people were killed during the robbery. PHOTO/FILE
Summary
In 2020, the biggest fraction of money or property valued at Shs11.5t was lost in economic crimes, the report notes.
With many of the 2020 economic crimes still unresolved, financial institutions have urged the government to strength investigative capacity of crime prevention institutions, as well as the criminal justice system, to detect, prevent, investigate and fully prosecute rising cases of big-ticket fraud and embezzlement cases.
Crime rate come down in Hyderabad by 10% in 2020: Anjani Kumar
By SM Bilal| Updated: 21st December 2020 9:22 pm IST
Hyderabad: There is a good news for the residents of state capital Hyderabad: The Crime rate has come down by ten percent this year in the city.
There is also a decrease in the rate of crimes against women and children. While the crimes against women have Come down by 19 percent, they have come down by 35 percent against children. However on the other hand, the cyber crimes have increased in the city this year.
These facts have come to fore in the Annual Crime report released by Hyderabad Police Commissioner Anjani Kumar at University College of Arts and Sciences on Osmania University campus .
Cost of Crime against US Jewelers is up 89 per cent December 13, 20 by John Jeffay
(IDEX Online) - The cost of crime against jewelers in the US almost doubled in 2019.
But the actual number of thefts, burglaries a
nd robberies was virtually unchanged at 1,438, indicating a steep rise in the value of goods taken in each crime.
The total cost last year was £101m, up 89 per cent, according to the Jewelers Security Alliance s (JSA) Annual Crime Report.
The average loss from sophisticated safe attack burglaries more than doubled from $221,000 in 2018 to $491,000 in 2019, said the JSA, blaming highly mobile professional burglary crews .