Taking a strong note over the rising incidents of loot and burglary in more than a dozen sanitary ware shops, petrol pumps and banks across in the State capital, Ranchi Zone IG MS Bhatia held a review meeting with the DSPs, Inspectors and Officer in Charge (OC) of city police stations on Thursday. Bhatia directed the officials to prepare a list of 10-15 top criminals and keep a track record of their activities.
“Given the fact that the Officer in Charge of Police Stations is assigned multifarious jobs, the core of their duty must be to control crime in their areas,” said IG Bhatia.There must be a teamwork among the OCs of the police stations of the State capital and should work together to track the criminals, added Bhatia.According to Bhatia, strict instructions have been given to the OCs that they must be present in their PS and any work should not be delegated to the junior officers.
Referring to the rising incidents of burglary and loot in the city in the last few days, Bhatia said that manpower in the city police stations will be strengthened as there is acute shortage of constables.“As a preventive measure, all the police stations have been directed to enhance patrolling in the lonely areas during the night to avoid such incidents of theft and loot,” added Bhatia.
Bhatia also directed to conduct patrolling through motorcycles or by foot if required, in the some of the narrow and congested lanes where police vehicle may not reach.While the cases of theft already registered with various police stations must be investigated and detection of criminals must be ensured within the shortest possible time, Bhatia said.
Over a dozen cases of burglary and loot have been registered with various police stations in Ranchi during the last fortnight where the burglars took away sanitary wares worth lakhs. The burglars barged into a lalpur based Punjab National Bank taking away jewelries worth several lakhs after breaking open the lockers inside the bank on Tuesday.Recently on Friday, a robbery of Rs2 lakh also took place at Dulari Petrol pump in Harmu area, merely a few meters away from Argora Police Station.