Murder down, crime up
Phnom Penh’s murder rate was halved in 2013 as compared with 2012, but the same could not be said for crime cases across the board, which jumped a whopping 62 per cent last year, municipal police announced yesterday. “There were a total of 775 cases of crimes happening in 2013, while there were 477 cases happening in 2012 in Phnom Penh,” said Brigadier General Chuon Narin, chief of the Phnom Penh Municipal Police. “There were only 17 people killed in 2013, while 34 were killed in 2012,” he added. The most common offences, Narin continued, were armed robbery (up 49 per cent, to 82 cases), other robberies (up 142 per cent, to 63 cases) and rape (up 54 per cent, to 32 cases). …
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
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