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A multi-tier surveillance system to monitor anti-socials in north Chennai is fetching the desired results, says L. Srikrishna
Criminals who manage to stay out of the police surveillance net are known as “out of view” in police parlance. The North Zone police have recently introduced a multi-tier surveillance system to address this problem. This had not only enabled them to contain anti-socials, but also ensured constant and close monitoring, so much so that police say ‘out of view’ is now a thing of the past. The police have drawn a comprehensive list of rowdies and habitual offenders. There are trained personnel in plainclothes monitoring the activities. All the police stations in the Zone have the profiles of nearly 2,500 rowdies who figure in criminal records. This kind of documentation had curbed rowdyism as well as paved way for better maintenance of law and order, police officers say. Speaking to The Hindu, Joint Commissioner of Police (North) M.Ravi said that between January and June 2007, the police had detained 76 persons under Goondas Act in the North Zone, while in the corresponding period last year, the num ber of persons detained stood at 46. Explaining the profile system, he said it had all the particulars of the criminal elements. Right from the basic information about the person such as name, age, address, marital status, finger prints, body marks and latest photographs to details about accomplices, criminal activities, friends and rivals, likes and dislikes and the modus operandi carried out at the time of executing a crime would figure in the database. Conviction
Apart from this, the recent conviction and life terms imposed in three murder cases reported in North zone had come as a deterrent to the rowdy elements. The investigation officers were instrumental in securing the key accused in the sensational Veera and Gajendran murder cases swiftly, Mr Ravi said. The multi-tier monitoring facilitated in getting information at a faster pace about the movement of criminals as each team comprising policemen and officers gathered from their own network. For supervisory officers in the respective police districts, it helped in solving crime at a faster speed, he pointed. With law and order under control, crimes like house breaking and burglary too remained under check, he added. The recovery of stolen articles stood at 92 per cent while the detection rate was 87 per cent in North Zone. When contacted, Additional Commissioner S.R.Jangid said random “storming operations” by special teams in specific pockets in the city were some of the strategies adopted by the police. We have specific information about movement of most wanted criminals like “Vellai” Ravi also. It is only a matter of time before we nab them, he said. Apart from detention of rowdies behind bars for illegal activities, the police also watched those persons who came out of prisons, he added.
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