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Timely intelligence immensely helpful Law & order

Number of
anti-socials detained under various acts is
on the increase, writes R. Rajaram

A surge in the number of anti-socials detained under the Goondas Act across the Central Zone during the first half of 2008 is perceptible.

As per police statistics, a total of 123 anti-socials have been detained so far under the Goondas Act, compared to 46 in the corresponding period last year.

Similar has been the rise in the number of people detained under the Bootleggers Act.

Eighty-eight bootleggers have been detained under the Act so far this year, compared to 40 during the same period last year.

The police have also acted tough on habitual offenders booking cases against them under Security Acts.

Detention under the Goondas Act is one way of preventing habitual offenders and criminals from continuing with their criminal activities, say law enforcing authorities adding that the objective was to create a deterring impact.

Nagapattinam district ranked top in the Central Zone in both Goondas and Bootleggers Acts detentions so far this year followed by Tiruchi (Rural) and Thanjavur districts.

Cases under various provisions of different Security Acts have been registered against criminals and rowdy elements involved in law and order and crime cases in order to keep their activities under check, say the authorities.

Police authorities say that their top priority was to check violent crimes and mercenary killings, and embark on sustained drives against illicit distillation, which has been thriving, if the number of prohibition cases being booked periodically is any indication.

Thanks to timely intelligence information, the police were able to arrest criminals and prevent murders.

However, the surfacing of first-time offenders and new gangs about whom no background information is available is turning out to be a cause for concern for the law enforcers.

Cases pertaining to property crimes committed by first-time offenders would make it difficult for the investigators to crack, they say.

The nexus that develops among criminals detained in the jail also worries the police.

To avert major crimes, the police have put such violent criminals on watch.

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