Last year there were 18,868 persons who were arraigned by the police, some of them more than once, and charged with the commitment of crimes.

Answering a parliamentary question by Silvio Parnis (PL), Justice Minister Carm Mifsud Bonnici said the number did not include traffic cases, in which tickets were handed out.

During the same period there had also been 589 persons, not necessarily from the foregoing number, who had been sentenced to jail, with 122 of them being relapsers.

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