Crime in Colombia went down six percent in 2010 compared to the year before, the country’s police said in their year-end report.
The country’s murder rate dropped 3.6 percent. In 2010, 15,238 murders were committed against 15,817 the year before. The murder rate is now 32 per 100 thousand.
Murders did go up in the departments of La Guajira and Caqueta and in the north of the Antioquia department, police said.
The police stressed that in more than a quarter of Colombia’s municipalities not one murder was committed all year.
Pushed by the country’s largest cities Bogota, Medellin and Cali where the police claims ongoing successes in fighting street crime, robbery went down 7.6 percent in the country.