The epidemic of pickpocketing in Kiev: the number is increasing, the clearance rate drops

Police say that such crimes are difficult to prove.

In Kiev intensified pickpockets. They work in transport, railway stations and even churches, hunting for wallets and mobile phones, says the story TSN.19:30.

“It was a trolley. I went in, there were so many people, everyone was beautifully dressed,” recalls Alina from Kiev Bragina, which is the output lost wallet with a few hundred hryvnias and Bank cards. Two days later, the stolen thing was found on the social network, the girl saw an ad. However, the purse she came back empty.

In Kiev intensified pickpockets

TSN. 19:30
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The Metropolitan police say that the number of pickpocketing in comparison with last year has increased by a third. They work in transport, railway stations and even churches. The representative of the Moscow police Irina Levchenko claims that the percentage of detection was low because in such cases not enough witnesses.

The Metropolitan police say that the number of pickpocketing in comparison with last year has increased by a third: 2802 case 2146. But the disclosure was a decrease of 191 against 388. A police spokesman Irina Levchenko claims that the percentage of detection was low because in such cases not enough witnesses. “To prove a pocket theft, when the stolen mobile phone and stolen especially if the purse is actually necessary to catch the man by the hand,” she says.

If the thief is experienced, the hand can not catch him. Theft takes only 2-3 seconds and occurs when attention of victim is chained to something else. Vladimir, who before being finished with crime, held in prison for 13 years, says that one of the important stages of the theft is distraction. “A bouquet of roses jammed in my face,” he recalls his antics.

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To recognize in the crowd a professional thief very difficult. Professionals can be in a respectable suit, with diplomats and with glasses similar to the students. The most important advice of Vladimir – public areas focus on their stuff, but the most valuable thing is simply not to let go.

This fall, law enforcement agencies have already warned that in the Kiev metro, the cases of theftand started looting. Mobile phones are just ripped from the hands of passengers.

The TSN reporter Anton Strashko

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