Even as the state was witnessing sensational crimes on a regular basis, especially against women, DGP, OP Singh presented a data claiming that crime graph in UP had declined as compared to last year.
Beside extortion calls to at least three dozen MlAs, which were yet to be worked out by the UP Police or series of killings of Saffron leaders, the state has been witness to sensational crimes against women every alternate day.
Only in the last week, the CM suspended two SPs for failing to act perpetrators of rape and murder of two women.
However, an undeterred DGP said, “In the last six months, crime under various penal offences including murder, rape, loot, dacoity, road-holdup, violence, kidnapping for extortion etc have seen a drastic cut this year so far.”
Singh made the claims after kicking off a training for Special Police Operating Team (SPOT) sleuths in the new ATS office campus in l ucknow on Tuesday afternoon.
Citing official data, Singh said, “While dacoity has come down by 36.96 per cent, loot has reduced by 19 per cent, murder by one per cent, burgalry by 12.84 per cent, riots by 6.94 per cent, kidnapping for ransom by 8.7 and rape by 6.91 per cent between Jan 1 to July 15 this year.” The DGP claimed, “The police arrested 5,677 criminals, including 2,068 reward-carrying offenders and 62 miscreants were killed in encounters. We are focusing on basic policing and ensuring visibility of the force and slashed the response time of the police.”