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Crime rate declining: police chief

Staff Reporter

Fewer cases registered this year compared to last year

CHENNAI: The number of crimes in the State between January and May this year has come down compared to the corresponding period last year, A.X. Alexander, Director-General of Police (DGP), said here on Thursday.

After restoring stolen property worth Rs. 1.34 crores to the owners at the police commissionerate, Mr. Alexander told the media: "The crime rate is on a downward trend." Last year, 9,409 crime cases were registered in the State; this year 8,793 cases were registered.

The number of murders for gain, robbery and burglary cases had also dropped this year, he said.

The police were able to improve the detection percentage.

There had been a marginal increase in the recovery of stolen property, Mr. Alexander said.

To a question on the action taken in the case of the leakage of question papers of the police constable recruitment test, conducted by the Uniformed Services Recruitment Board, Mr. Alexander told the media to wait and watch.

About the involvement of dismissed police personnel in criminal offences, Mr. Alexander said the State police had a strength of 1 lakh men and women. Not more than 100 dismissed police personnel were indulging in such activities, which was only .001 per cent. He said: "We are on them very heavily. We will take them to the last."

New curriculum

In order to overcome this problem, the authorities were preparing a new syllabus for the Police Training College, which included change in the attitude and behaviour of the selected police personnel, the DGP said. Serious punishment was being meted out to those who indulged in unlawful activities, Mr. Alexander said.

Talking about "out-of-view-criminals," Mr. Alexander said 45 such offenders were rounded up in the city and in the last two months. 160 cases were detected and 166 persons were arrested in connection with the offences.

Commendation certificates were presented to police personnel in Mylapore, including the Deputy Commissioner of Police, K.P. Shanmuga Rajeswaran, for solving a murder case in eight days and getting a sentence of 10 years rigorous imprisonment for the accused.

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