The phrase 'combat crimes' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to talk about working to prevent and reduce crime in a particular area, or attempting to stop somebody from committing a crime. For example, "The police are doing their best to combat crimes in this neighborhood."
Mr. Freeh, who as director often asserted the bureau's capability to combat crimes of all kinds, today acknowledged some inadequacy by the bureau.
In a meeting with CPJ delegates in 2014, Brazil's president, Dilma Rousseff, promised to adopt a policy of "zero impunity" and pledged to support legislative initiatives to combat crimes against freedom of expression.
"We need the resources from Plan Colombia, the helicopters and equipment, to be used to combat crimes, to prevent massacres, to prevent takeovers of towns, that they be used against kidnappings and to prevent forced displacements of villagers".
In addition, a cross-border crime task force involving the UK's National Crime Agency, the Police Service of Northern Ireland and HM Revenue and Customs is being set up to combat crimes such as fuel smuggling in areas such as South Armagh, which is controlled by former IRA veterans.
The brief arraignment set the scene for what is certain to be an intense battle between opposing views of the world: nations and groups that are determined -- after what Isaiah Berlin called "the most terrible century" -- to combat crimes it regards as intolerable through the extension of international law, versus a man who sees this campaign as little more than a cloak for American imperialism.
Additional information was collected through face-to-face, semi-structured interviews with Italian law enforcement officers (from CITES and NIRDA, the detective squad assigned to combat crimes against animals) and acknowledged experts (officials from wildlife NGOs).
A good tool to prevent and combat crime.
Yuldashev also set up neighborhood watch committees to combat crime.
For example, Traders against Crime formed to combat crime in the highest crime area of Warwick.
Britain participates in EU arrangements to combat crime, human trafficking, illegal immigration, and terrorism.
Colombia's government has made a concerted effort to combat crime, and successfully so.
