Warsaw’s municipal police have seen yet another drop in the crime rate – there have been fewer break-ins, cars stolen, fights and muggings.

Comparing statistics from the first six months of 2009 to the same period this year, there were 13 percent less beatings, seven percent fewer break-ins, four percent less robberies and 10 percent fewer reported stolen cars. Most significant, however, is the fact that there was a 27 percent drop in muggings.

So far in 2010, there have been 680 muggings in Warsaw, as compared to 2003 when that number, for the first six months of the year, hit over 3,000.

“I am really pleased with the significant drop in this category because that is the type of crime that is particularly harmful for citizens,” says Inspector Adam Mularz, head of the municipal police, adding that their units have targeted such crimes particularly for the last year and a half. (mmj)

Source: Gazeta Wyborcza