In view of increasing crime graph in the State capital, State Additional Director General of Police (law and order) Ram Singh Meena presided over a meeting with Dehradun police officers on Tuesday evening and directed them to take concrete action to check crime graph in the city. He expressed displeasure over the police station officers for not registering an FIR whenever aggrieved person approaches them.
ADGP Meena said that crime graph in the state capital has increased for the last one and half month and police officers have failed to put a check on it.He expressed disappointment over police officers who failed to reply satisfactorily about their plan for reducing crime graph in their assigned areas.He warned them to take initiatives to put check on crime graph in their jurisdiction otherwise leave the police stations. Departmental action will be taken against them if they who fail to put check on crime cases in their jurisdiction, he added.
In another development, PHQ released a report on crime graph on Wednesday wherein police claimed that police have managed to reduce crime graph by five percent across the State this year in comparison to last year.Police solved 76 per cent of registered cases and arrest was made in 43 per cent of registered case and 49 per cent stolen items were recovered.
In comparison to last year’s crime graph, there has been reduction in 29 per cent loot cases, 20 per cent in vehicle theft cases, 50 per cent in chain snatching cases, 20 per cent in extortion cases, 38 per cent in women’s abduction and 52 per cent in kidnapping cases in the state.Seventy-two per cent of total loot cases were solved and arrest was made in 91 per cent of such cases. 58 per cent vehicle thefts were solved and arrest was made in 89 per cent of such cases and 83 per cent of stolen items were recovered.
Thirty-one per cent of total chain snatching cases were solved, arrest was made in 80 per cent and 43 per cent of stolen times were recovered. Police some how managed to solve cent per cent extortion cases reported in the State.