Delhi Police Commissioner BS Bassi on Friday laid down the road map for policing the national Capital. He outlined an eight-point agenda for making Delhi a better and safe place to live. Delhi Police Commissioner also emphasised on serving the people and making Delhi Police a responsive and responsible force. “I do not go by the statistics as that does not reflect the true health of the law and order machinery. What matters at the end of the day are enforcement, booking the criminals and instilling a sense of security among the citizens”, he said.
Delhi Police Commissioner said that he has identified vulnerable areas and the force is focused to bring out effective mechanism to curb the menace in the city. Ensuring free and fair registration of crime has always been on top of his agenda of policing. “We cannot provide succour and justice to a crime victim unless we register an FIR and punish the accused under the relevant sections of the law. An increase in the registration of crimes, particularly street crimes, ever since I took over as the chief, is a testimony that those tasked to bring the guilty to the book have started to register cases and have come out of that mental block that prevented them from registering more cases. Burking has no place in the scheme of things as it creates disaffection among people”, Bassi added.
Delhi Police chief also said that his force has started to lay special emphasis on prevention of crime against women. There are 24X7 help desks at all the police stations to help a victim. Posts meant for male constables were converted and 522 women constables were recruited and additional posts of 306 women sub-inspectors and 778 women constables were added to the force to bring parity.
“We must appreciate that as long as every woman on Delhi’s streets does not feel sully safe, our task is incomplete”, Bassi added.
Enhanced registration of cases has resulted in solving of 3242 heinous cases in 2013 against 2042 such cases during the previous year. It also resulted in solving of 36134 cases registered under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) in 2013 as compared to 27544 in 2012, the Delhi Police Commissioner said. It is quite evident now that registration of cases and solving is important for keeping the criminals under check, he added.
There is another important facet of policing in the form of launching a crackdown on hardened criminals and gangsters. Delhi Police launched extensive and well planned operations against desperate criminals and terrorists. Special cell arrested one of India’s Most Wanted terrorist Abdul Karim Tunda of lashkar-e-Tayyeba (leT) was a big success. Special Cell, Crime Branch and district police arrested 63 desperate criminals including 43 rewarded criminals, Bassi further said.
Focusing on the women security, B S Bassi said that they have decided to write a letter to education department of Delhi government asking them to include ‘self defence training’ in the main curriculum as a compulsory subject of every school.
“Self defence should be introduced as a compulsory subject in all schools. With the number of crime against women cases on the rise, it is important that every women knows how to defend her own self. If self defence is introduced as a subject for girl in classes 5 and 6, by the time they become vulnerable, they would know how to protect themselves. We will be writing to the education department on this,” he added. The move was thought after the analysis of the police showed that 380 victims out of 1599 rape victims were within the age group of 12 and 16 years. It was also found that in 113 cases, the victim was between 7 and 12 years.