While the crimes continue to rise drastically the city police remain clueless as always. The criminals and burglars in the city are becoming more active day by day due to which the public and the city police are having sleepless nights.
The police seem to have no answers to the growing number of daylight burglaries and murders as people continue to face the brunt of these criminals.
Even after twenty-four hours of the daylight burglary worth Rs 24.20 lakh from a Toll Plaza employee by three bike borne muggers at the City Centre area of the city, the police remain rather clueless clutching at a few pieces of CCTV footage and a blurred photo of the bikers. Stealing huge amounts from near banks and chain snatching seem to have become an unchecked art for thieves these days in the city.
The same is the case with the murder of Palak, a six year old girl child at the Kampoo area by a reckless driver. Even after possessing the footages of the numberless Icon car, the police have not been able to arrest the culprit.
It is no secret that the poor quality of video surveillance in the city is one reason for this sorry state of affairs despite the whole city being under CCTV surveillance.
Speaking to the media persons, JP Sharma, retired SP opined that the crime rate should have been under check as the whole city is on screen. He wondered why the police are continually ineffective in apprehending the criminals as the whole city is covered from the control room through CCTV cameras. He further said that it is the duty of the police to see that all CCTV footages are of quality good enough to identify criminals.
Factually, many cameras in the city are of low quality and often donot capture images clear enough to pinpoint perpetrators of crime. Criminals acquainted with this fact often use helmets or pieces of cloths to ensure that their features are obscured. The one solution for this is to install as many cameras as possible in the city and surrounding areas as the criminals, at some point from the scene of crime are bound to remove the helmet or face cover, which in turn will help the police in identifying them.