Graph of street crimes down in April: police

The Karachi Police have released a performance report which claims that the number of street crimes in the city has decreased in a month.

A spokesperson for Karachi police said the number of snatching of vehicles, motorcycles and mobile phones in April was lower than that happened in March.

During the month of Ramazan, Karachi police carried out full-scale operations in the fight against crime, the results of which have begun to come, the spokesperson claimed.

However, the Karachi Police spokesperson, while compiling this report, did not bother to mention in it how many unarmed and innocent civilians were deprived of their lives and how many were injured during the ongoing dacoit rule in the city.

The report released by the Karachi Police for the last two months - March and April - claimed that Central, City, East, Keamari, Korangi, Malir, South and West districts of the city recorded a decline in the incidents of street crimes. According to the data, a total of 4,534 mobile phones were snatched during the said period in which 2,416 mobile phones were reportedly snatched in March and 2,118 in April.

Similarly, a total of 417 vehicles were stolen and snatched during the last two months.

In the month of March, 16 vehicles were snatched and 206 were stolen. In April, 12 vehicles were snatched and 183 were stolen.

During the last two months, a total of 8,993 motorcycles were stolen and snatched.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 9^th, 2022.