In Cyprus runs the story covering some criminal statistics of European Union in general, and Cyprus in particular. There are some analysis to the numbers and some breakdown by type of crime and so on.
If you are visiting Cyprus on holiday, you can be reassured that Cyprus is the safest country in the EU – based on analysis of data from the EU’s statistical office, Eurostat.
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From the site, you can find out that there were 2.3 million crimes recorded in Spain in 2012 (the latest data), 4.4 million in the UK and just 8,000 crimes recorded in Cyprus in the same year.
The bit that caught my eye was the term “recorded crimes”. As if decreasing the number of recordings is one of the ways to minimize crime rate…
This is why local police is so reluctant to register any criminal event. You need some guts to make it happen.
I had no experience with criminal cases. But this is definitely true for traffic accidents. For example, if the car was hit on a parking lot – happened at least twice in practice.
Even if someone hit a pedestrian – if case is not lethal and no complaint filed with the police (and police is discouraging everyone to file complaints) – they would not register.
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2 attempted muggings outside my work over the last month and constant reports of burglaries I keep hearing of. Lowest “reported” crime rate perhaps!
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I know many cases of burglaries, police never refused to come. However the end result was nothing. :)
… and actually it doesn’t seem that burglary statistics are lying.
“The domestic burglary rate for Cyprus is actually higher than the EU average, at 3.43 per 1,000, so you might want to think about upping your security.”
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