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S.S. Colony police have hit upon a novel idea to move around in vehicles with siren blaring to scare away offenders, writes L. Srikrishna In an initiative to prevent crimes such as chain snatching and eve-teasing, the S.S. Colony police personnel have hit upon a novel idea. For the last two months, the crime police team are on the move in their sports utility vehicles (SUV) with sirens blaring. Apart from visibility to the public and residents, it sends a signal to the offenders to vacate the spot, police said. Following complaints of chain snatching and eve-teasing, Commissioner of Police P. Balasubramanian and senior officers focussed on providing support to the police personnel at the S.S. Colony station. Apart from petty crimes, grave offences in the jurisdiction posed a challenge to the city police. Though there were many factors to the crimes reported, the senior officers were determined to put an iron hand on the offenders. Additional strength As a first step, the sanctioned strength was provided to the station and next was the shuffle of some personnel and officers at the station. New faces in the crime wing were given the task of not only preventing crimes, but also detecting cases under investigation for a long period, police said. Recently, Petchimuthu Pandian was posted as Assistant Commissioner of Police (Crime-Thilagar Thidal sub-division, under which S.S.Colony station falls), VM. Elangovan, Inspector (Crime-S.S. Colony police station), among others. Surveillance through plainclothesmen in crime-prone pockets helped in identifying the troublesome locations and regular watch at the Central Jail also came in handy. The police solved a house burglary case reported in a doctor's residence in S.S. Colony, it may be recalled, an officer said. In the evenings The new officers in charge of crime decided to be on the move in the evenings (from 5.30 p.m. to 10 p.m. and even beyond) in their SUVs with the siren on. Initially, the public were baffled at the police movement with sirens, but as days passed, it was welcomed by a majority of residents, N. Ramanathan of Jawahar Street said. “At least, when someone is in need of police help, the movement of the SUV with revolving beacon light comes in handy, a woman from Nehru Nagar said. Police officers said that crimes do happen, but this is a step to discourage law offenders and in another way helps instil confidence among lone women or old people to move around without any fear. May be extended Mr. Balasubramanian told The Hindu that it was a pro-active step by the S.S. Colony police officers and if necessitated, it would be extended to other areas also.
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