Crime Detection

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Updated: December 31, 2014 08:14 IST

Crime detection is at its best in a decade, say Coimbatore police

M. K. ANANTH

Police used traditional methods besides modern ones such as cell phone analysis

Though the volume of cash and valuables lost in incidents of theft, waylaying, burglaries and other crimes has increased in the city, percentage of crime detection and recovery of stolen valuables is “at its best in more than a decade”, according to police.

Coimbatore City Police Commissioner A.K. Viswanathan made this claim, providing statistics to back up his statement.

He said 87 percent of the stolen valuables were recovered this year, adding that this was made possible by following basic police practices alongside modern methods such as cell phone analysis and examination of closed circuit television (CCTV) recordings.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ramya Bharathi said that important cases that helped maintain a high recovery rate was the Rs. 1.6 crore worth gold and cash stolen from a private financing firm (at Kovaipudur) and red sanders worth Rs. 3.45 crore stolen from a godown (at Ondipudur).

Till December 29, the police have detected a total of 573 cases, recovered cash and valuables worth Rs. 8.66 crore and arrested 709 persons involved in those crimes. A total of 47 persons were detained under the Goondas Act. The number of murders too dropped from 24 last year to 19 this year, of which 18 were detected. The lone case yet to be solved and which is posing a challenge to the police, is that of college student Arnold (21) in an abandoned building on Brooke Bond Road in August.

A sum of Rs.8 crore was collected as fine from persons violating the Motor Vehicle Act: such as drunken driving, over speeding, rash and negligent driving, driving without licence, not wearing helmet, using mobile phone while riding and not wearing a seat belt. But these efforts could not avoid a 20 percent increase in road accidents in the city to 1,569 in 2014, compared to 1,300 in 2013.

The number of road accident deaths increased from 269 in 2013 to 286 this year, while the number of persons who were injured increased from 1,147 to 1,404.

The number of kidnapping cases has increased from nine to 13 this year. Of the total of 252 persons who went missing, 208 have been traced.

There is an increase in the number of cases registered based on complaints from women that they were harassed by their husbands or his relatives.

The Cyber Crime Police have registered 20 cases in 2014, compared to six in 2013.

Source: http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/crime-detection-is-at-its-best-in-a-decade-say-coimbatore-police/article6740967.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication