400,000 Victims of Fights Visited Forensic Medicine in 2016

The Forensic Medicine Organization of the country announced that in the first eight months of the current year, over four hundred thousand victims of fights visited forensic medicine centers, with the highest number of these conflicts occurring in Tehran province. According to a report on Thursday (January 6), 401,335 victims of fights visited forensic medicine centers during this period. This figure was 407,893 in the previous year. As reported by forensic medicine, the highest number of victims visiting forensic medicine centers came from Tehran, Khorasan Razavi, and Isfahan provinces. Based on this report, during this time, Tehran province had 71,003 visitors, Khorasan Razavi had 33,648, and Isfahan had 28,863. The provinces with the lowest number of fight victims were Ilam with 2,522, South Khorasan with 2,581, and Semnan with 3,042. Of the total fight victims, 276,393 were men and 124,942 were women. Recently, the head of the Criminal Investigation Police introduced Tehran, Khorasan Razavi, and Isfahan as the most crime-prone provinces in 2016. Mohammad Reza Moqimi also stated that to combat this issue, 'groups of retired officers and criminal investigators' have been formed in these provinces to assist younger forces. He added that 'demographic structure, immigration, population density, and economic conditions are among the factors that increase or decrease the rate of crimes, especially violent crimes in a region.' Tehran, Khorasan Razavi, and Isfahan are the most populous provinces in Iran. Statistics published by forensic medicine in 2015 also indicated that an average of one fight occurs every minute across the country. In this context, 50,000 people in Iran visit forensic medicine monthly due to fights.