A crime every every 20 minutes in Kuwait

The Kuwaiti daily al-Rai reported on Sunday that Kuwait witnesses a crime every 20 minutes.

The paper added, according to a study prepared by the planning and promotion department at the Kuwaiti Ministry of the Interior, that this rate came following monitoring of crime rates during 1998, following precise registration of crimes and smaller crimes.

The study said it registered in 1998 the occurrence of 13,731 criminal acts, of which 3,608 were registered against unidentified persons. The number of "smaller crimes" was 13,546, of which 5,623 were also registered against unidentified persons.

The study added that the rate of Kuwaitis among the criminals reached 56%, the Arabs were 26% and foreigners' percentage was 18%.