Cluj-Napoca, the European Youth Capital in 2015, is becoming more and more dangerous because of the rising crime level. 18.433 felonies were reported last year, registering a growth of 2% from 2013. The new chief of the police, Tudor Grindean(photo), didn’t succeed, in his first year in office, to lower the rates of delinquency in Cluj-Napoca. 18% of the felonies reported were violent crimes. In the meantime, the contributors of Cluj County pay 600 euro per month for the rent of Grindean’s apartment in a residential neighborhood of the city.
„The police was notified during 2014 of 18.433 felonies, which brings Cluj under the national crime level”, said Police officials, answering a question raised by the reporters of the newspaper gazetadecluj.ro.
1.393 police officers and personnel are currently working in Cluj providing law and order. Each Police employee is working 13 different cases, shows a calculation made by our newspaper.
Last year, Gazetadecluj.ro reported on a number of issues that made Police officers look like they weren’t properly trained for their job, such as the neck stabbing that wasn’t registered as a murder attempt. Also, the case of a car set on fire and the threatening of the car owner’s wife and daughter was later on taken over by the officers of DIICOT Arad (a different region of the country), due to the incompetence of Cluj-Napoca’s law enforcement institutions. The newspaper also unveiled that the private firm of the former chief of police (Pop Puscas Teodor- PP Protect) was given an advantage in a penal case and many other such cases of mishandling the law.
The Police in Cluj was further the subject of public humiliation when, in the begining of 2015, four prisoners escaped from the local prison. Although all four were eventually caught, one of them was on the run for 13 days. Last night another prisoner escaped from police custody. He was caught three hours later, after wondering throughout the Youth Capital of 2015.
Read more on this subject in romanian:
INFRACȚIONALITATEA în creștere în Cluj
The European Youth Capital in 2015, Cluj-Napoca, is having serious problems with concerns to the crime levels, and having a new Police Chief, who comes from a different region (Alba County), doesn’t seem to have been the right solution. We raise the question whether the tourists that want to visit and enjoy the city this year should think twice before coming to Cluj-Napoca. Until then we hope that the crime rates in the city will decrease and the police vigilance will improve.
Gazetadecluj.ro is starting a project in which we will try to inform the tourists which want to visit Cluj-Napoca about the main problems of the city. This is the first piece in english of many yet to come about the European Youth Capital in 2015- Cluj-Napoca.
Photo source: ziuadecj.ro
