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Fri 02 Feb 2010Drug crime increasing faster than all other offences
CRIME LEVELS:DRUG CRIME, up 137 per cent, increased at a much higher rate than any other form of criminal activity in the five years from 2004 to 2008.
Homicides and sexual offences actually decreased in the five-year period. But almost every other crime type increased in the five years to the end of 2008, a Central Statistics Office (CSO) study reveals.
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