In the first week of January, 92 cases of heinous crimes, including 11 murders and 22 rape incidents, have been reported in the Capital, Delhi Police data show.
From January 1 to 7, there have been 11 murders, 13 cases of attempt to murder, 46 armed robberies and 22 rape incidents.
Around 4,700 e-FIRs have been registered in cases of thefts and motor vehicle thefts on the Delhi police portal.
A senior officer said the cases registered have either been worked out or are being probed.
They claimed that officers acted swiftly in all registered cases.
“We register an FIR in each and every crime reported in the city. The pending cases will soon be worked out,” said an officer.
On January 3, a woman was killed in a celebratory firing during New Year’s Eve party at a farmhouse in south Delhi.
Following this, on January 5, a manager was robbed and killed in New Delhi’s Jhilmil industrial area.
The next day, two men were found murdered on Nangloi-Najafgarh Road in outer Delhi’s Ranhola.
On the same day, a 30-year-old man was shot dead after he objected to a dog barking at him in north-east Delhi’s Welcome.
Delhi Police ranks one
Meanwhile, the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) has ranked the Delhi Police as number one in uploading data on Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS) consecutively for the third time in the past three months.
“In the report released by NCRB for November, the Delhi Police topped the rank followed by Maharashtra police. The Madhya Pradesh police secured the third position. The Delhi Police has topped the same in September and October also,” said an officer.
He added that the Delhi Police updates the CCTNS in real time. During scrutiny, the NCRB found that the data of crimes, criminals, FIRs were all updated online as compared to other States.
The police said with the objective of proper implementation of CCTNS in all police stations in Delhi, a CCTNS core team for each district has been formed to deal with day to day CCTNS related issues and resolve them immediately.
“The data entered in the CCTNS is checked thoroughly before updating the system under the supervision of a senior officer. We organise regular workshops for the staff handling the CCTNS,” added the police officer.
Recently, the Delhi Police has become first in the country to have digitalised malkhana in police stations of its all districts.
