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Saturday, May 21, 2005

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They are the preferred ones

A senior officer says the top brass prefers personnel with proven ability for a major job instead of entrusting the work to greenhorns or those who lack interest, writes K.V. Subramanya

IS THE top brass of the city police relying too much on a select bunch of officials in detecting and preventing crime? This is the question being asked in police circles. Since B.K. Shivaram took over as Assistant Commissioner of Police, Central Crime Branch (CCB), some two years ago, the investigation of most of the sensational crimes has been entrusted to the team led by him.

Mr. Shivaram's team, the Organised Crime Prevention Cell, comprising inspectors Rathnakar Shetty, Umesh, Revanna and Nanjunde Gowda, has not only been probing and solving murder and kidnapping cases, but also conducting raids on live band joints. It was this squad that shot dead Abdul Razack, a Chhota Rajan aide, and Syed Nasru, an accused in nearly 50 criminal cases, in separate encounters a few days ago. Senior officials have now directed the team to assist the Indiranagar police in the investigation of the twin murder of an exporter and his chief accounts officer last week.

Even in the past, say in the last 15 years, it was some particular officials who detected almost all the major crimes reported from the city: Mr. Shivaram, T.G. Sangram Singh, Victor S. D'Souza, Abdul Azeem, B.B. Ashok Kumar, Lava Kumar, G. Ahmed Bava, H. Subbanna and B.K. Muniyappa.

It was the officials from this select band who were involved in the detection of cases that hit the headlines such as the kidney scam, the stamp paper racket, the church blast case, the Asnotikar murder case, serial killings in Peenya and the arrest of the Dandupalya gang and "serial killers" Ravi and Shyam, to name a few. A senior IPS officer who was earlier the Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime) says the top brass prefers to put those with proven ability on a major job instead of entrusting the work to greenhorns or those who lack interest.

Some officials claim that though they have the ability, they are not given important cases. "Even the cases reported from our jurisdiction are handed over to some other officials who are pampered by the top brass," they say.

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