In Kazakhstan, thanks to a shift to early crime prevention, the public situation has improved and the overall crime rate fell by 11% in the first half of the year, reports infohub.kz.
This was stated by the Prosecutor General of Kazakhstan Berik Asylov. According to him, in the context of legal reform, law enforcement agencies are moving from responding to consequences to predicting threats. To this end, the country has established a Center for Forecasting Criminal Threats and Risks, which operates around the clock to analyze the criminogenic situation, identify dangerous zones, and monitor foreign content.
Using AI and drones, prosecutors, together with the Ministry of Internal Affairs and local administrations, identified more than 360 potentially dangerous locations across the country. In these places, police patrols were strengthened, about 4,000 new lighting points and over 3,500 CCTV cameras were installed. As a result, in the first half of the year, the number of murders, robberies, muggings, extortions, thefts, and street crimes decreased.
Offensive work against drug crime also continues. The Cyber Surveillance system blocked 10,000 materials promoting drugs, including more than 6,000 online drug shops. In addition, the prosecutor's office and police blocked over 464,000 drop accounts and seized illegal income from drug sales totaling more than 2.6 billion tenge.
For the first time in recent years, Kazakhstan has managed to reverse the upward trend in internet fraud — the number of such crimes fell by 9%. Law enforcement officers, together with Kazakhtelecom, intercepted over 1 million suspicious calls and shut down 12 foreign scam call centers. In particular, the capital's Anti-Call Center managed to prevent the deception of a 76-year-old pensioner who planned to transfer 21 million tenge to fraudsters. Simultaneously, through the National Bank's Anti-Fraud Center, fraudulent transactions worth more than 2.9 billion tenge were blocked.
The Prosecutor General emphasized that the key goal of the agency is to identify threats in advance and prevent consequences within the framework of the "Law and Order" principle set by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.