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The development in numbers of ascertained crimes committed by foreigners in the CR from 1993 to 1999 and changes between years. | ||||||
1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | |
Ascertained crimes | 9,426 | 11,384 | 11,544 | 11,200 | 12,935 | 14,192 |
Percentage change | - | 20.77 | 1.41 | -2.98 | 15.48 | 9.72 |
The ratio of foreigners among prosecuted persons in the Czech Republic has been around 6% since 1993. In the year monitored, the Czech police prosecuted 7,491 (-207, -2.7 %) foreigners, which are 5.9 % of the total number of persons prosecuted. Using the qualified estimation based on the police statistical database we can say, that less than one third of prosecuted foreigners in 1999 were foreigners owning a permanent residency permit or long-term residency permit7). The decline in the number of prosecuted foreigners was caused mainly by a lower number of prosecuted citizens of Slovakia (-773 persons). On the contrary, the number of prosecuted foreigners from other countries increased (+566). There has been a decline in prosecuted citizens of Slovakia on a long-term basis. In 1994 there were 4,454 prosecuted Slovak citizens, while in 1999 only 2,184. However, there has been a rise in other prosecuted foreigners (2,347 in 1994, 5,307 in 1999).
Prosecuted persons - foreigners in the Czech Republic in 11999 and change in %. | ||||||||
Crimes against property | Common thefts | Robberies | Crimes of violence | Murders | Immoral offences | Economic crimes | Other | |
Number of persons | 2,263 | 1,288 | 559 | 1,230 | 64 | 82 | 1,482 | 1,650 |
Percentage change in comparison with 1998 | -7.22 | -6.80 | -21.27 | -2.69 | -5.88 | -37.40 | 5.71 | 3.84 |
In total, prosecuted and investigated foreign nationals committed a total of 14,192 (+1.257 offences) offences cleared up, i.e. 7.3 % of the total number of offences cleared up (6.8 % in 1996 and 7 % in 1998). The number of cleared up economic crimes has grown. On the other hand, the number of cleared up crimes of violence and moral crime has declined. The number of detected crimes against property where the offender was a foreigner stagnates. Foreigners often commit violent crimes within their own ethnic groups.
Prosecuted persons - foreigners in the Czech Republic in 1999 and change in %. | ||||||||
Crimes against property | Common thefts | Robberies | Crimes of violence | Murders | Immoral offences | Economic crimes | Other | |
Number of persons | 5,366 | 1,779 | 1,178 | 1,303 | 57 | 110 | 3,663 | 2,835 |
Percentage change in comparison with 1998 | 1.69 | -88.01 | -14.45 | -4.40 | 0.00 | -34.52 | 14.65 | 46.59 |
The delinquency of foreigners prevails in the borderland (provided we exclude Prague). The regions often used by foreigners for illegal migration prove to be a high rate of prosecuted foreigners.
The share of foreigners the total number of offenders in the regions of the CR in and percentage | |||||||||
Prague | CBR | SBR | NBR | WBR | EBR | SMR | NBR | CR | |
Percentage share | 13.5 | 4.8 | 4.6 | 6.6 | 5.1 | 4.8 | 5.5 | 3.6 | 5.9 |
Percentage change in comparison with 1998 | 1.61 | -0.84 | -0.38 | 0.60 | 0.11 | 0.42 | 0.30 | 0.65 | 0.10 |
The total number of sentenced foreigners is 4,769 (7.6 % of the total number of sentenced foreigners, in 1998, 2,714 foreigners were sentenced, which is 5.8 % of the total number of sentenced foreigners). Most of these sentenced persons were citizens of Slovakia (1,649) and Ukraine (1,049). 2,469 were sentenced without any suspension, while 1,379 were inflicted suspended punishment.
The Prague courts and South Moravian courts sentenced the majority of foreigners - 1,264 persons or 697 persons respectively.
2. Crime, Development in Individual Kinds of Crime and Security Risks