Jamshedpur : The district police are witnessing some of the testing times. While the deteriorating law and order situation in the city remains major concern, the city has witnessed steep rise in suicides too.
Police have launched an intensive arms checking drive on the streets to tackle crime but they seem to have overlooked the movement of various gangs which are roaming free and giving shape to criminal incidents with gay abandon.
�The city had been free from crimes, but now the `knife culture’ has taken roots. The police should act with utmost vigil and nab the accused. The increase in crimes is a matter of concern. Thefts were a common but recent rise of cases of murders is serious,� said the BJP leader.
Meanwhile East Singhbhum senior superintendent of police (SSP) Amol V. Homkar recently held a crime meeting at his office and asked his team to strengthen their intelligence network to rein in the city�s soaring crime graph.
During the four-hour long meeting, SSP Homkar stressed upon ways by which rising crime graph in and around Jamshedpur needed to be checked at the earliest.
Superintendent of police (city) Karthik S., along with deputy superintendents of police, officers-in-charge of all 17 police stations across the city and circle inspectors attended the meeting. He added officers had been asked to strengthen intelligence-gathering mechanism.
A senior officer, who attended the meeting, said they had been instructed to identify criminal gangs operating in the city and chart their pattern of committing crime.
A crime wave has gripped the city in recent months with figures showing a substantial increase in the number of murders, thefts and robberies taking place across the city.
The police administration has decided to increase night patrolling in the city, especially in Mango and Sakchi localities of the city.
Officials said that constables on foot would be deployed in a stretch of every one km for patrolling. Several other constables would be deployed for the purpose, besides patrolling by the local police.
“Burglaries have increased during the winter as many families are away on vacation. Now that the election process is over, the manpower position is back to normality. Specially constituted patrolling squads have already been deployed under the limits of the Mango and Sakchi,” said police official.
He, however, stressed upon developing intelligence gathering machinaries and intensifying patrolling around midnight. In the past one week, at least seven cases of burglary have been reported in the city and the suburbs.
Most of the incidents happened in posh areas of Mango and Sakchi.
