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Need to plug gaps in crime database: DGP

Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD: It was high time the District Crime Record Bureaux (DCRB) improved their quality, remarked DGP, R.R. Girish Kumar, on Wednesday expressing concern over ‘gaps' in crime database compiled by the State police department.

He was speaking at the valedictory function of a three-day training programme on ‘Urban policing and challenges: e-Governance for crime prevention and detection' for police personnel organised by the Regional Centre for Urban and Environmental Studies, Osmania University, here.

“Many a time figures sent by the superintendents of police about crimes don't match and keep varying,” he said observing that there could be gaps in the data recorded and disseminated by the district police wings. “Sometimes, CID officials, who head the State Crime Records Bureau, throw their hands in despair over the conflicting data. This requires immediate attention and correction,” Mr. Girish Kumar said. Exhorting the police personnel to use data for prevention and detection of crime, he asked senior officers to analyse the data instead of merely compiling statistics. The RCUES Director, professor Bhupatthi Rav, said the Government had already earmarked nearly one lakh crore rupees to be spent over the next five years for the uplift and infrastructure for the urban poor. Maintaining that crime rate was going up in urban centres – especially in slums – he appealed to the police officials to introspect why there is a huge gap of relations between the police and the public.

Additional DGs, A. Siva Narayana and K. Durga Prasad, and IGsP, S. Umapathi and Ravi Gupta, were present.

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