August sees more home break-ins every year than other months. But this season there have been fewer thefts. Cyprus Police consider this fact to be a consequence of successful investigations and arrests made this year.
Home break-ins are on the rise across the island in August. While everyone is going on vacation and the property is empty, it becomes an easy target. In Nicosia the level is even higher than the island average. Residents of the capital are leaving their homes, even if they are not going abroad, as they are heading to the coastal or mountainous areas of the island for vacation.
In the first 20 days of August, 13 cases of property theft from home have already been recorded, most of them in Nicosia. However, the investigations were successful and the criminals were caught.
What's unusual is the downward trend in home break-ins in 2024. In the first 7.5 months, there were 150 such crimes. In 2022, 339 break-ins and 18 break-in attempts occurred during the year, and in 2023 – 369 and 19 attempts.
Statistics show that in 2024 we can expect a decrease in the number of such thefts. There were an average of 20 hacks per month, which means that by the end of the year there will be 240, which is 35% less than in 2023.
Cyprus Police consider this fact to be a consequence of successful investigations and arrests made this year. Thus, 56 people were arrested, of which 55 were brought to trial.
For example, this week two island residents were detained who stole gold items from the Church of Apostolos Andreas in Aglanja last weekend, one Cypriot who committed two thefts in Aglanja between 10 and 13 August, and one foreigner who stole a forklift worth €6,000 in the suburbs of Nicosia.
The text was prepared based on materials from “Philelefteros”
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