FOR the first time in living memory, not a single murder case was reported in Nagpur city for the entire February month. For a city, criticised as the ‘crime capital’ of Maharashtra for high number of violent crimes just a few years ago, the development has come has a big booster in its image building. Commissioner of Police (CP) Amitesh Kumar attributed the success to the hard work of police personnel. “Identifying criminals and targeting them with preventive action, intensified patrolling, total closure of illegal activities, continuous checking of criminals on record are some of the efforts that have borne fruits,” he said. The result was the impact of the continuous deterrent policing over the years, Kumar added.
Though February month reported zero murder cases, the impact of crime prevention tactics was evident from December last year. As per statistics, Nagpur city witnesses six to seven murders every month. However, drop in murder cases was observed from December 2021 (five murders) and January 2022 (four murders). The average murder cases reported in February month were 6.6 -- as per the statistics of last five years. The city police bosses used preventive action as the most potent weapon to crush the gangland. Whopping 9,964 criminals were booked under preventive action. As many as 63 dreaded goons were bundled into jails under MPDA last year. The number was three times more than MPDA cases registered in 2020 (20 cases). Similarly, seven gangs were booked under MCOCA last year.
Broke the ‘comfort level’ of criminals: CP “AFTER taking reins of the police commissionerate, I had observed that the criminals were having comfortable relations with the police. A visit of the police team was not making any psychological impact on the criminals,” said CP Amitesh Kumar. Such ‘comfort level’ of criminals with the police emboldened them for criminal activities without the fear of law. The painstaking efforts of police personnel helped us to instill the fear of law among anti-socials, the top cop added.
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