Algeria Counts 800 Crimes Daily

A total of 270,000 crimes of all kinds were recorded in 2016, the equivalent of nearly 800 crimes a day, involving more than 300,000 people, Algeria gendarmerie services said.

In details, the figures of the judicial services of the National Gendarmerie Command, which copy is available to Echorouk, show that the gendarmerie units across the 48 provinces counted nearly 115,000 crimes, equivalent to 320 per day, resulting in the arrest of 116,000 people, 47% of them are minors. These crimes range from assaults on persons, property attacks, intentional killing, beatings and physical injuries, to kidnapping of minors.

Same report also revealed that Setif, Algiers and Tabessa come first in terms of the number of processed cases.

For their part, the national security units registered, across the 48 provinces, more than 145,000 crimes, equivalent to 450 crimes per day, and 40% of the total crimes are related to assault on people and 41% to assault on properties.

Latest police report on criminality in general warned against the rise in child delinquency and their involvement in the most serious crimes, which was not recorded by their categories, such as willful killing and moral crimes that amounted to humiliation of honor among their groups, in addition to thefts, drugs and the destruction of property in schools and playgrounds, and assaults on races and other serious cases that could affect the behavior, psychology, and possible delusions in criminality.

Gendarmerie and police services warned of the rise in homicide cases, as gendarmerie registered in 2019, according to the figures, over 429 murders, compared with more than 600 murders that were recorded by police departments across the provinces of its jurisdiction with a total of 1,029 crimes, I.e 4 murders per day.

Number of students, minors, women and even employees who are involved in committing the crime was recorded after it was the exclusive domain of jobless in previous years. 

In terms of numbers, the gendarmes and police revealed that the groups that are involved in public crime and organized crime are students, employees and traders.