The Gurugram Police has decided to boost night patrolling to avert crimes against women and other criminal activities under the charge of a Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) rank officer.
The district-wise DCPs and Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) will conduct night patrolling in their respective areas. Also, the Station House Officers (SHO) will assist senior officers in conducting night patrolling.
The move comes after the Director General of Police (DGP) Haryana, BS Sandhu, directed the Gurugram Police to boost night patrolling.
“We have advised our personnel to share details of the night patrolling staff with the different Resident Welfare Associations (RWAs) representatives and a public. Our main focus on the highways and adjoining sectors. The officer will also keep an eye on suspected areas,” DCP (traffic), Simardeep Singh, said.
“Also the security of the women during the night hours is one of our major concern and several residents in the city raising concerns about the safety of women at night. So we have prepared daily duty chart for senior police officers to keep an eye on an effective night patrolling. The concerned officer of the area will check all the border areas of the city,” he said.
Recently, the Gurugram Police had conducted a night domination drive under the supervision of DCPs with 251 police teams of East, West and South zones, including Crime Investigation Agencies (CIA) and traffic personnel.
During the domination around 5,294 vehicles had been checked in which 539 vehicles were challaned, 58 vehicles were impounded while 40 cases registered against the errant drivers, police said.
Apart from this, police had arrested five criminals with plenty of illegal firearms and stealing vehicles. The personnel also conducted raids at 256 different locations of the entire city.
Recently, the city has viewed several incidents of crime against women during late hours. On August 7, a 23-year-old techie was allegedly stalked by two unknown men in a car around 11.50 pm on old Dehil-Gurugram Road.
On May 29, a woman alleged that she was gang-raped in a van at Manesar and the accused choked her infant daughter to death before fleeing the scene.
On May 24, a 26-year-old woman from Darjeeling claimed that she was molested by an unknown person on Sohna Road.
On May 14, a 26-year-old woman from Sikkim alleged that she was gangraped by three men in a moving car after being kidnapped near Sukhrali village.
“To avoid crime against women the Gurugram Police has increased the patrolling duties also the Commissioner of Gurugram Police has warned the officer if any lapses were found during the job hours strict actions will be taken against them,” said a senior police officer.
“To provide more security for women our officers will be available during the night patrolling also in case of 100 numbers showing busy then distressed public can directly make a call to the concerned police officer,” the DCP, said.