Believe it or not, for a population of nearly one lakh, there is just one police station having just 39 police personnel in Yadgir city, headquarters of Yadgir district.
However, demands for more number of police stations and an exclusive woman police station have gone unheard so far.
Reasons
The shortage of police personnel is cited as one of the main reasons for the increasing incidents of burglary, house break-ins and chain snatching in the city in the past few days.
A gang of unidentified persons broke open the doors of a locked house and took away 30 grams of gold and Rs. 30,000 in cash at Chiranjeevi Nagar on May 17 and couple of days later, two motorcycle-borne men snatched a gold chain worth Rs. 1 lakh from a housewife who was returning home from the market at Lakshmi Nagar in the evening hours.
Night patrolling
Residents of all localities have demanded that the district police intensify night patrolling, which is not happening now due to shortage of staff, to effectively check the increasing incidents of house break-ins and burglary.
According to police sources, shortage of police staff in the town police station, under which falls the entire city, was the main reason for not extending proper protection to the general public.
As against the sanctioned post of 56 in the police station, only 39, including three women police constables, were working.
Of the available 39 police personnel, two each have been deployed at the Deputy Commissioner’s office, to the Bhima Patrolling Vehicle and on court duty.
Deputation
Apart from this, six police personnel are regularly deputed to maintain traffic, as the city does not have a traffic police station too. Due to the shortage of police personnel, the existing staff are forced to work for more hours leading to fatigue.
Demands
The long-pending demands to establish a women’s police station and a new police station for the railway station area and appoint adequate staff to provide protection to the citizens still remain unfulfilled, though this was brought to the notice of Home Minister K.J. George during his recent visit.
Vinayaka Patil, Superintendent of Police, told The Hindu said that he would discuss the issue with senior officials and urge them to take steps to fulfil the demands.
The shortage of police personnel is cited as one of the main reasons for increasing crime
The long-pending demand to establish a women’s police station has remained unfulfilled
