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Police Chief promises another helpline

Staff Reporter

‘To register complaints about missing children in the Capital’

NEW DELHI: A day after six minors were reported missing from Anand Vihar in East Delhi, Police Commissioner Y.S. Dadwal on Wednesday announced establishment of a helpline within a fortnight to register complaints about missing children in the Capital.

“We already have a cell in place to coordinate searching of missing children. Children are precious gifts and we will do whatever possible to reunite them with their parents,” Mr. Dadwal said at a press conference.

Six minors, including three girls, had gone missing under mysterious circumstances while on their way to school in New Sanjay Amar Colony on February 10. Responding to questions on disappearance of over two-dozen children in the colony in the past seven years, Mr. Dadwal said there was no organised gang behind the disappearance of children.

In the wake of a growing number of criminal cases involving motorcyclists, the Delhi police have decided to verify the ownership of two-wheelers in the city to identify criminal elements. “Several motorcycle riders have been found to be involved in crime in the Capital. We have decided to tackle the situation by verifying the ownership of motorcycles and the source of income of the owner. If a person has no regular source of livelihood and is keeping a motorcycle, he will have to explain where he got the vehicle from and how is he maintaining it,” said Mr. Dadwal.

With the servant verification drive of the Delhi police launched earlier this month showing that a large number of domestic helps were still not verified, the police are now planning to lodge cases against employers who are not complying with directions in this regard.

During the first 15 days of the drive, police identified 18,927 servants, of which 32 per cent were not verified. “The situation has improved a bit than it was earlier. Sixty-eight per cent of the servants were found to be verified. Still the figure is very disturbing. We once again appeal to the people to cooperate with us. If we do not get their cooperation, we will go ahead with lodging cases,” the Police Commissioner said.

On the traffic front, the police have challaned 1.26 lakh people for violation of traffic rules from February 1 to 15. They include 21,000 cases of red light jumping. Mr. Dadwal attributed the traffic problem to the sharp rise in the number of vehicles on the Capital’s roads.

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