Jamshedpur police to strengthen mechanism for controlling crime

SSP convenes meeting

Jamshedpur, Feb 8: In view of the rising crime cases, the city police have decided to strengthen their mechanism for controlling crime in the steel city. The crime has shot up this year, going by the increasing number of petitions and complaints that the police are receiving.Notably, of late there has been a spurt in the crime of loot, snatching, eve-teasing and drunk-driving at the steel city.  The people, especially the women and girls are not safe as the criminals and other miscreants have a free run committing loot and snatching with impunity.

Senior cops and deputy superintendents of police were at the meeting during which SSP M Tamil Vanan took a stock of the pending cases and gave a directive to dispose of as many cases as possible at a faster pace.

Even as the police continued to grapple with the spurt in snatching, looting and thefts in the steel city, city police have launched a series of  measures to curb the incidents of such crimes today.

For curbing the mounting criminal incidents, the police have started random checking of  bikes, beefing up security in and outside the bank premises, centralising the patrol vehicles to police control room instead of confining in the thanas and deciding to set up checking points at the exit points in the city Today police carried out a special drive of checking the riders of sports bikes at strategic points across the city from 10 am  to noon.

At Bistupur, the special drive was conducted by the Bistupur police near G-Town Club turning, a place which is new for such checking. Similarly, at Sakchi the special drive was conducted throughout Masjid  Road and in Golmuri the two-hour-long drive was carried out near the Golmri roundabout.  The special drive was also carried out in Kadma, Telco, Jugsalai and Mango where incidents of snatching was reported regularly.

“We have focused on the riders of sports bikes and ensuring that the bike-riders are outside the city. We are stressing on the sport-bike riders as we have established that while committing crimes like looting and snatching, the criminals use the sports bike,” said the official.

The SP (City) Subhash Chandra Jat said they have also decided to check the effectiveness of the CCTV cameras installed inside and outside the banks so that the police may get clear footage of the suspected criminals involved behind any incident of crime. The senior police officer stated that very soon they will set up permanent check-points at the exit.