Crime numbers down, Top Cop says

The Guyana Police Force yesterday reported that there had been a small percentage increase in serious crime as compared to last year but that as the year ends today those numbers are down from a high at the beginning of the year.

“Total serious crimes rose in February and peaked in August when we had a total of 388 reports,” Police Commissioner Seelall Persaud reported yesterday at the police’s annual end-of-year press conference.

However, Persaud informed that at the end of this year the numbers decreased by more than