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Central Java sees lower crime intensity: Police

The Central Java Police said on Thursday crime levels had been less intense in the province throughout 2016, thanks to improved security personnel capacity in crime prevention and control.

Suherdjoko (The Jakarta Post)
Semarang, Central Java
Fri, December 30, 2016

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Central Java sees lower crime intensity: Police Against crime -- Central Java Police chief Insp. Gen. Condro Kirono (center) explains the police's achievements in handling crimes in the province throughout 2016 during a press conference on Thursday. (Antara/R.Rekotomo)

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he Central Java Police said on Thursday crime levels had been less intense in the province throughout 2016 thanks to improved security personnel capacity in crime prevention and control.

“It has been recorded that in Central Java, crime occurred every 41 minutes and 48 seconds in 2016, less than in the previous year, which saw a case every 34 minutes,” the province’s police chief Insp. Gen. Condro Kirono said during a year-end press conference in Semarang.

He further explained the number of criminal cases in Central Java had reached 12,574 in 2016, down by 17.5 percent from the 15,245 in the previous year.

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“If we look at the number of criminal cases solved, there has also been an increase. In 2016, out of 12,574 criminal cases, 8,624 were solved, an improvement on the previous year, in which 9.771 of 15,245 case were solved,” said Condro.

The Central Java Police showed good performance solving criminal cases, in particular related to drugs, for which they had solved 1,010 out of 1,091 cases, with confiscated evidence consisting of 18.26 kilograms of marijuana and 1,296 kg of ecstasy pills.

On pyschotropic substances, the police had been able to solve 40 out of 43 cases, with 3,713 psychotropic drugs confiscated as evidence.  

Among criminal cases recorded this year, theft with violence still had quite a high prevalence. According to the police, 2,256 cases of theft with violence were reported in 2016, down only 15.47 percent from 2,669 in 2015. (ebf)

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