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Initiative proved effective in a chain-snatching incident, writes Petlee Peter Chennai police have compiled three albums containing photographs and information of ‘active criminals’ operating in different parts of the city. The album of chain snatchers, white-collar criminals and property offenders is expected to help in easy identification of offenders by the victims. According to police sources, the albums featuring over 2,000 criminals from the north, south and central zones was compiled in the last two months and copies have been distributed to senior police officers. While there are zone-wise albums of chain snatchers and property offenders, the dossier on white-collar criminals has details of 459 persons who were involved in cheating banks, credit card and chit fund frauds, video piracy, land grabbing, job racketing and cyber crime. The albums are shown to the victims during the initial investigations after a crime is reported. The initiative proved effective in a recent chain-snatching incident at Thiru-Vi-Ka Nagar. “The woman whose chain was snatched was able to identify one of the accused from the album containing photographs and information of about 91 chain-snatching offenders in north Chennai. A police team is now searching for the accused,” said S.N. Seshasai, Joint Commissioner of Police (North Zone). The database has come in handy and helps police in cracking crimes quickly and accurately, he added. V.A. Ravi Kumar, Joint Commissioner of Police (Central Zone) termed the new database as a ‘ready reckoner.’ “The albums also help us to keep track of habitual offenders and prevent them from indulging in crimes. In some cases, it can also be used to push for logical convictions including for the Goondas Act,” he said. Similar albums containing photographs and criminal records of rowdy elements in Chennai are being made. Prepared according to police districts in the city, the albums will feature criminals on categories of ‘A,’ ‘B,’ and ‘C’ based on their offences.
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