Crime falls in Poland as criminals emigrating

CRIME rates in Poland are dropping as its criminals are emigrating to countries such as Ireland, according to one of its chief public prosecutors.

This month, leading Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza carried a report which coupled the country’s falling crime figures with the fact troublemakers were leaving in droves to work abroad. In the first half of this year, there were 4,500 fewer crimes reported with a significant drop in the number of petty robberies.

This is continuing a trend picked up in 2004 and in one local prosecutor’s office, there were 700 fewer crimes reported in the first six months of this year.