In 2012, in the Vitebsk region was committed 54 murders and attempted murders. This is almost 12% percent more than last year. These data were made at a coordination meeting on crime and corruption in the Vitebsk region.

According to the Prosecutor General's Office has also increased the number of crimes in the Vitebsk region associated with the deliberate infliction of serious bodily injury (from 157 to 182, or 15.9%). Increasing the number of crimes in this category occurred in 12 districts of the region, the most important - in the October, Pervomaisky district of Vitebsk, Vitebsk, and Miory Postav areas Novopolotsk and Orsha.

"Analysis of the statistical data and the criminal records indicate that the main causes and conditions conducive to the commission of crimes against the person is drinking and alcoholism, nezanyatasts socially useful work, deficiencies in the activity of prevention, including working with individuals who have returned from correctional facilities and health-labor rehabilitation "- the press service of the Prosecutor General.

Overall, in 2012 in Vitebsk region recorded 12,441 crimes.

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