Jamshedpur: The Steel City has seen a sharp rise in the number of burglaries in the past few weeks. The areas lying on the periphery of the city are the worst-hit. While a scooty was stolen from outside the house of Mehroon Nisha, resident of Barinagar Sabri Chowk under Telco police station. The incident took place at 4 pm. The incident of theft was captured in the CCTV installed at the neighbor’s house. On the basis of CCTV, the thief was identified as Nikhil Tiwari, a local resident. When the people of the settlement reached Nikhil’s house to talk, the family members of Nikhil talked about returning the scooty, but till now the scooty was not returned. Mehroon has also made a written complaint in the Telco police station in the matter.
In the past two months alone, around 20 such incidents have been reported from various residential colonies under various police station areas. The maximum number of such incidents have been reported from the Olidiih and Telco police station areas.
Police, on the other hand, maintained that night patrolling in the affected areas has been intensified to check burglary incidents and few additional measures will be introduced further.
“All such measures, including special drives, that require to be taken to curb robbery incidents will be taken up by the city police,” said a deputy superintendent rank police officer. Despite efforts, cases of thefts and burglaries have become a regular affair in the city. In the last 48 hours alone several cases of stealing and shoplifting have been reported in the city.
“We have installed Close Circuit Television, (CCTV’s) but that does not work 24-hours. Moreover we have appointed extra security personnel and night guards to keep the vigil on thieves but still we are worried,” said an official of a shopping complex.
“There has been a spurt in petty crimes in the city. We have been successful in arresting quite a few thieves involved in the reported cases but I think there is a need to ensure proper night watch. We are planning to increase the movement of mobile police and vigil,” said a police official. Meanwhile, break-in in shops, thefts from scooter or motorcycle carriers and pick pocketing are at an all time high. Apart from such crimes, a number of residential complexes have also witnessed a spate
of robberies.
