Moscow police chief states security levels' improvement in recent years
MOSCOW. Oct 24 (Interfax) - Security levels in Moscow have been improving in recent years, Moscow police chief Lt. Gen. Anatoly Yakunin said.
"Let us take a look at significant crimes, for instance, robberies. Their rate is down 21.1%, which is much more than Russia's average. There has been a 25.5% decline in assaults. Such crimes as murders have reduced by 9%, severe physical damage by 6%, including lethal physical damage by 13.5%, rape by 12.8%, burglaries by 9.9%, and car hijacks by 10%," Yakunin said in an interview published by Rossiyskaya Gazeta on Friday.
He added that the police numbers in Moscow had decreased by 20,000 officers in the course of the 2011 reform.
The Moscow police chief said the lesser number of policemen in the city was not important amid the scientific and technological progress.
"Nowadays 120,000 video cameras are controlling practically the entire city - streets, apartment building lobbies, yards, buses, trolleybuses and the metro. They are helping us record and solve crimes without delay," Yakunin stated.
