Prosecutor general notes reduction in Latvia's crime rate

Crime in Latvia was in decline last year, Prosecutor General Eriks Kalnmeiers said at the annual meeting of chief prosecutors here on Wednesday.

The prosecutor general noted that the overall number of crimes recorded in 2015 was more than 2 percent lower than the figure recorded a year before.

"This trend is encouraging," Kalnmeiers said, adding that the rate of grave crimes also decreased somewhat, to 4.1 percent of all crimes recorded in 2015. Latvia' s grave crime statistics for last year also included four contract killings.

Although Latvia' s crime rate was the lowest among the three Baltic states last year, it dropped at a slower pace than in Estonia and Lithuania, the prosecutor general admitted. Enditem