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Fewer police cases reported in Coimbatore

V.S. Palaniappan

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Stern action: Night vigil is one of the measures that helped bringing down crime rate. –

Coimbatore: Criminal activity in Coimbatore has come down substantially owing to preventive measures including intensive patrolling, City Police Commissioner K.C. Mahali has said.

At a crime review meeting on Thursday, he pointed out that from September 1, 2006 to August 30, 2007, a total of 595 cases had been reported in the city.

But during the same period this year, there were only 416 cases. This represented a fall of about 30 per cent.

Police officers had been instructed not to indulge in “burking of cases,” that is, refusing to accept complaints and register first information reports (FIR).

The detection rate during the same period last year was 85 per cent; this year it has risen to 88 per cent. Steps were being taken to improve the rate.

Mr. Mahali said that in all the 15 police station limits in the city, night vigil was being maintained.

To prevent ex-convicts, “habitual offenders,” “known depredators,” and “history-sheeters” from operating freely, “shadow watching of criminal elements” had been stepped up, he said.

Sixty-two habitual offenders who had “taken to crime as their career” had been detained under the Goondas Act during the last eight months, the Commissioner said.

Nights rounds and marching of beats were being supervised by a Deputy Commissioner, an Additional Commissioner and two Assistant Commissioners.

The fall in crime rate was discussed at the crime review meeting, which was presided over by the Commissioner.

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