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Stolen vehicles left to rust

Staff Reporter

Photo: Lingaraj Panda

Seized stolen bikes lying in a police station in Berhampur.

BERHAMPUR: Hundreds of motor vehicles especially bikes seized from thieves are rotting at different police stations of the State. Lack of proper communication network between police stations of the State is major obstacle for the owners to get back their vehicles.

Usually the thieves take advantage of this lack of communication and sell stolen bikes and four wheelers of one district in another. Even if stolen vehicles are seized from thieves at some place the owners of the vehicles living in other districts usually do not get any information regarding the recovery of their vehicle as they have their FIR for the theft registered in police stations of their area. The seized vehicles are left to corrode at the police stations as unclaimed properties.

Similar lack of communication with the national data bank enables inter-state vehicle thieves to reregister stolen vehicles in Orissa at remote places like Phulbani. A few months ago, the Kandhamal police had unearthed a racket which was doing it at Phulbani.

According to secretary of the Ganjam Bar Association, Manoj Patnaik this problem can be sorted out through a computer network connecting all police stations of the State with a centralised data bank at the State police headquarter.

Crime control

He has written to the Director General of Police (DGP), Amarananda Patnaik suggesting him to inter-connect all major police stations of the State via computers so that data regarding stolen vehicles could be exchanged immediately. The engine and chassis number of recovered vehicles could be matched with the data bank of stolen vehicles. This would enable the owner of a stolen vehicle to immediately know the seizure of his vehicle in some other part of the state so that he can make claim to get it returned.

Senior police officials agree with Mr Patnaik that this networking would help in crime control as it would be hard for criminals to escape after committing crime in some police station area. The computer networking would enable faster flow of information from one police station to others.

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