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Priority to fill police vacancies in Tirupur

Staff Reporter

Stationing of TSP in district a major help
Law and order has improved

Tirupur: Priority is being given to fill the vacancies in Tirupur district police which presently stand at 18.5 per cent against the state average of 15.3 per cent, according to Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) K. Radhakrishnan.

“The recent stationing of few companies of Tamil Nadu Special Police (TSP) in the district has helped compensate the manpower shortage to a large extent,” he told the reporters here on Wednesday after reviewing the law and order situation in Tirupur and Erode districts.He said that law and order situation in Tirupur district had significantly improved in 2010 vis-a-vis 2009 as the year did not witness any communal issues unlike in the previous years.

The ADGP said that digital profiling of the migrant worker population had been going fast in Tirupur knitwear cluster and its suburbs as part of steps being taken to control crime. “We have so far completed the profiling of almost 25,000 people out of the 4.5 lakh workforce,” he added.

He said the high rate of detection and setting up of numerous check posts had started acting as a deterrent for the criminals. “This year, we have solved all seven murders for gain cases reported,” he added. Likewise, 90 out of the total 113 robbery cases and five out of the six dacoity cases too were solved. “Stolen properties worth Rs. 1.13 crore were discovered during the period,” he added.

In 29 grave crime cases, the police were able to get conviction for more than five years for the accused involved.

To a query, he said that there were no plans to open new police stations in Tirupur sub-division for the time being.On high incidence of suicides getting reported from Tirupur district, he said the studies had indicated that it was not due to unemployment or owing to harassment from usurers. On the transferring of alleged multi-crore forex trading scam involving Tirupur-based Pazee Marketing Company to the Economic Offences Wing, he said that the case had been transferred to EOW as the district crime branch did not have the manpower to tackle teh cse of that high magnitude.

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