Crime figures show an improvement
The police registered 1.2 million crimes in 2010, 5% fewer than a year earlier, the central statistics agency CBS says on Monday.
Crimes of violence, bike thefts and criminal damage all fell, but house break-ins and scooter and motorbike thefts rose.
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