Vong Sokheng
The Phnom Penh Post
Violent crime in the capital surged more than 250 per cent in the first six months of this year from the same period last year, while the crime rate also rose nationwide, according to a Ministry of Interior report obtained by the Post yesterday.
The report said there were 289 murders and assaults in the capital in the first six months of this year, compared to 112 cases in the same period in 2010.
“There were 73 cases of murders and 216 cases of assaults in 2011. In 2010, there were 40 cases of murders and 72 cases of assaults,” the report said.
It also said crime rates rose in 10 provinces. The sharpest increase was in Pailin, where total cases jumped from 18 in the first six months of 2010, to 49 in the same period this year, a rise of nearly 200
percent.
Other provinces reporting surges in crime were Koh Kong, where rates nearly doubled, and Kampong Thom, where the rate rose 84 per cent.
The Ministry of Interior’s national police spokesman, Kirt Chantharith, denied yesterday that crime rates had surged.
“I am not yet aware of this report because it is a public holiday. Who said crimes are increasing? They aren’t, crimes are drastically decreasing,” he said, pointing to a new government policy designed to reduce crime rates in the Kingdom.
Known as the village-commune, or village-sangkat, safety policy, it allows villages and communes to recruit their own security guards in cooperation with local authorities. Last month marked its first full year of implementation.
Yesterday’s report contradicts numbers released in September by the Phnom Penh municipality, which said that felonies in the capital had decreased by 4 percent and misdemeanors had fallen by14 percent.
“Furthermore, out of 96 sangkats of Phnom Penh, 78 have no crimes happening,” the city’s website said, attributing the falling crime rates to the village-sangkat safety policy.
5 comments:
Decho Hun Sen, Mr Sam Rainsy asked you to sue him at a French court about your murders of the Khmer people. Why don't you dare to do it as you have done at the Cambodian court?
Being a strong man as well as a Prime Minister of one country, you should not be coward to face the real justice at a French court or International court. Unless, you are the real murderer in Cambodia that is the reason why you fear Mr Sam Rainsy at a real and fair justice court.
Decho Hun Sen, you rubbed the Cambodian people's well being, health care, dignity and sell Cambodia out to Vietnam in a cheap price as long as you can stay in power. Isn't that true, Samdach Decho Hun Sen?
How many Cambodian people's lives have you killed in your lifetime so far? Can you be honest to tell the truth?
As one Prime Minister of one country, you job is to bully your own people for just talking about Paris Peace agreement 1991 and about Vietnam's encroachments into Cambodia's territory. Why?
Samdach Decho Hun Sen, Why are you so scared of the truth? Why are you so scared of Mr Sam Rainsy when he asked you to sue him at a French court? You are a strong man as you claimed on the TV screen?
Samdach Decho Hun Sen, you shouldn't be scared of Mr Sam Rainsy because Mr Sam Rainsy has no weapon of mass destruction as you do. You are the murderer; you must be strong to face Mr Sam Rainsy at a French court as Mr Sam Rainsy has invited you to do so.
Samdach Decho billion dollars Hun Sen, Please face Mr Sam Rainsy as Mr Sam Rainsy has invited you through the world media. You used to win on Mr Sam Rainsy many times in a Cambodian court of justice. There is no reason why you should be worred about...if you have never killed anyone in Cambodia. Isn’t it true, Decho Sen?
The Cambodian people hope to see Samdach Decho Hun Sen has the gut as a leader or a man to sue Mr Sam Rainsy at a French court as Mr Sam Rainsy has invited Samdach Decho many times through Radio and world media.
Be a man Decho Sen! One in your life be a man Decho Sen! Be a man to face Mr Sam Rainsy at France court and international court.
We are personal bodyguards of Samdach Decho would like to see Decho Hun Sen be a man with Mr Sam Rainsy at a French Court. Otherwise, Samdach Decho is not worthy to protect because why do we have to die for protecting a traitor, a murderer, a blood sucker. Isn’t it true, Samdach Decho Hun Sen? Do you agree with that?
So who is wrong, the Ministry of Interior’s national police spokesman, Kirt Chantharith, or Ministry of Interior???
why people are biased with cambodia? they pretend all the other countries out there are perfect without crime or something! is that why we have police? let's be fair to cambodia!
I agree 100% with the S.O.B SKirt Chantrith. Crime rates did not increase. Skirt Chantrith never see any crime in cambodia in 2011. Under CPP leadership, cambodia violent crime will continue to decrease until eventually zero crime. His excellency S.O.B Skirt Chantrith is always right!
3:56 AM, Excellent observation, Crimes rate in the Banana Kingdom will decrease to zero crimes. Those numbers are wrong, those reporters should be punished according to the rules of law.
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