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> % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint	7.25 %		[8th of 38]
Acquitted	1,149		[29th of 30]
Assaults	3,182		[33rd of 49]
Car thefts	566		[40th of 46]
Convicted	4,029		[48th of 34]
Convicted (per capita)	1.28312 per 1,000 people		[47th of 56]
Corruption > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint	10.75 %		[6th of 39]
Courts > % of managers surveyed lacking confidence in courts to uphold property rights	51.6 %		[11th of 39]
Courts > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint	1.1 %		[12th of 39]
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation > Broadcast details > Alternate title/Translation CSI - En la Escena del Crimen
Death penalty > Last executed	1,903		[40th of 55]
Drug offences	1,484 per 100,000 people		[29th of 46]
Frauds	261		[42nd of 48]
Illicit drugs major cocaine transshipment point and primary money-laundering center for narcotics revenue; money-laundering activity is especially heavy in the Colon Free Zone; offshore financial center; negligible signs of coca cultivation; monitoring of financial transactions is improving; official corruption remains a major problem
Jails	21		[40th of 80]
Jails (per capita)	0.0066879 per 1,000 people		[17th of 62]
Judges and Magistrates	239		[35th of 35]
Judges and Magistrates (per capita)	0.0761146 per 1,000 people		[30th of 45]
Murders	281		[18th of 49]
Murders committed by youths	151		[26th of 73]
Murders committed by youths per capita	14.4		[10th of 57]
Police	15,255		[31st of 47]
Prisoners	10,350 prisoners		[31st of 168]
Prisoners > Female	6.9%		[16th of 134]
Prisoners > Foreign prisoners	9.1%		[37th of 86]
Prisoners > Per capita	354 per 100,000 people		[15th of 164]
Prisoners > Pre-trial detainees	55%		[29th of 143]
Prisoners > Share of prison capacity filled	144.7%		[37th of 128]
Rapes	212		[34th of 50]
Robberies	4,366		[23rd of 47]
Sentence Length	10,103		[3rd of 21]
Software piracy rate	74%		[35th of 107]
Total crimes	21,058		[41st of 50]
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Current situation Panama is a source, transit, and destination country for women and children trafficked for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation; the majority of victims are Panamanian women and children trafficked within the country into the sex trade; rural children in Panama may be trafficked internally to urban areas for labor exploitation
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Tier rating Tier 2 Watch List - Panama is on the Tier 2 Watch List for failing to show evidence of increasing efforts to combat human trafficking, particularly with respect to prosecuting, convicting, and sentencing human traffickers for their crimes, and for failing to provide adequate victim assistance
United States extradition treaties > Citation	34 Stat. 2851.
United States extradition treaties > Date signed	May 25, 2004
United States extradition treaties > Entered into force	May 8, 2005
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines	0		[141st of 143]

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