AMMAN — Crime detection rate went up to 77 per cent last year, compared with 62 per cent in 2012, according to the Public Security Department (PSD).
Detecting car theft, a recently widespread crime, stood at 81.5 per cent in 2013.
The number of crimes and misdemeanours stood last year at 21,308, slightly down from the year before “despite the refugee influx and the demographic changes the country saw in 2013”, said directors of PSD branches during a conference held on Saturday, quoted by the Jordan News Agency, Petra.
As for repeat offenders, security agencies have been arresting and referring them to court, said Director of the PSD Criminal Investigation Department Brig. Gen. Jamal Bdour, noting that this issue requires amending laws governing police work.
During the conference, Director of the Preventive Security Department Brig. Gen. Zuhdi Janbek announced that an Irbid-based arms manufacturing workshop was raided last year. Suspects were also accused of involvement in weapons trade.
Anti-Narcotics Department Director Col. Sami Askar said 8,945 suspects were involved in around 6,504 drug cases last year, adding that the authorities seized over 22 million Captagon pills, 444 kilogrammes of hashish and 5,007 kilos of marijuana in 2013.
